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Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend, A Brief Animated Introduction | ARTLECTURE

Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend, A Brief Animated Introduction

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A Brief Animated Introduction


She became famous for her marriage to Diego Rivera, the master of Mexican folk paintings, but was mentally shocked by her husband's promiscuous private life. Unfortunately, the physical discomfort continued due to a big car accident at the same time, but She turned her strong will to life into a work.

Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work.




In 1925, Frida Kahlo was on her way home from school in Mexico City when the bus she was riding collided with a streetcar. She suffered near-fatal injuries and her disability became a major theme in her paintings. Over the course of her life, she would establish herself as the creator and muse behind extraordinary pieces of art. Iseult Gillespie dives into the life and work of Frida Kahlo.

Perhaps a certain cult of Kahlo does place morbid fascination above real appreciation for her vision. “There’s a compulsion that’s satiated only through consuming Kahlo’s agony,” Garcia writes. But it’s also true that we cannot reasonably separate her story from her work. It’s just that there is so more to the story than suffering, all of it woven into the texts of her paintings. 


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Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson.