Frida: The Making of an Icon' will trace the professional and personal life of countercultural figurehead Frida Kahlo ...
personal themes and symbols from her dreams. La Casa de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Mexico City Located in the San Ángel district in Mexico City, this house-workshop is a symbol of modernism in ...
Frida Kahlo understood that self-portraiture could be a tool used for expressing themes of a highly personal nature. She had a masterful understanding of the stories that could be revealed through ...
From left, Frida Kahlo in 1938; Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird, 1940 (detail); Kahlo in 1939. Credit: Photos: Nickolas Muray Photo Archives She would be bored of it all by now.
Frida Kahlo: In her own image ... Pain and perseverance were defining themes in her life. When she was six, she contracted polio, which left her right leg shorter than her left.