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Frida Kahlo Research Paper

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Frida Kahlo was born in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico on July 6th 1907. She was raised in a blue house that the neighboring people called casa Azul. He father was a photographer whom immigrated to Mexico from Germany. Her parents met in Mexico, where Frida’s mother lived. Frida grew up with two older sisters and one younger sister. When Frida was about six years old she got the disease polio, causing her to be bedbound for nine months. She had a limp in her right foot, which was affected, during polio. Even though her right leg was damaged her dad wanted her to be active. She played soccer, went swimming, and even wrestled. When she reached the age of 15 she decided to enroll in the very well known and prestigious National Preparatory School. …show more content…

One day her and her boyfriend at the time, Alejandro, were riding on a bus, and then all of a sudden the bus crashed into a streetcar. Kahlo had a number of serious injuries, as a result of the crash. Because of this she was hospitalized for numerous weeks. While she recovered from the crash more so at home, she started painting her first self-portrait whom she gave to her boyfriend, Alejandro. Frida Kahlo started becoming more interested in politics; in result she joined the Young Communist League, and the Mexican Communist Party. At the age of 21 she and Rivera met each other again, and he loved her artwork. After a year of dating they got married. Frida Kahlo started adding some more intense and real looking pieces into her artwork, mostly because of a recent miscarriage. Kahlo and her husband moved to New York, because Rivera painted a mural in the Rockefeller Center, then when he finished they quickly returned to their new home in San Angel, Mexico. Kahlo and Rivera’s marriage didn’t work out that well he cheated on her with her younger sister Christina. Because of her devastation, she cut off most of her long thick beautiful black

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