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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 in Mexico City. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that left her in constant pain for the rest of her life, undergoing 32 operations. This accident inspired her to become a painter and her art often depicted her personal experiences with pain and medical issues. She married another famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, in 1929 and they were known for their dedication to Mexican culture. Kahlo continued to have health problems throughout her life and died in 1954 at the age of 47, just after gaining international recognition for her paintings.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 in Mexico City. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that left her in constant pain for the rest of her life, undergoing 32 operations. This accident inspired her to become a painter and her art often depicted her personal experiences with pain and medical issues. She married another famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, in 1929 and they were known for their dedication to Mexican culture. Kahlo continued to have health problems throughout her life and died in 1954 at the age of 47, just after gaining international recognition for her paintings.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 in Mexico City. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that left her in constant pain for the rest of her life, undergoing 32 operations. This accident inspired her to become a painter and her art often depicted her personal experiences with pain and medical issues. She married another famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, in 1929 and they were known for their dedication to Mexican culture. Kahlo continued to have health problems throughout her life and died in 1954 at the age of 47, just after gaining international recognition for her paintings.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 in Mexico City. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that left her in constant pain for the rest of her life, undergoing 32 operations. This accident inspired her to become a painter and her art often depicted her personal experiences with pain and medical issues. She married another famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, in 1929 and they were known for their dedication to Mexican culture. Kahlo continued to have health problems throughout her life and died in 1954 at the age of 47, just after gaining international recognition for her paintings.

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    ENGLISH CLASS

    FINAL PROJECT
    FRIDA KAHLO BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    Frida Kahlo Bibliography

    Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City suburb of Coyoacn, in the same
    house where she lived for 47 years.
    When she was 18 years old, she was in a bus accident that injured her spine, pelvis, and
    foot, injuries that led to many hospital stays, operations, and, ultimately, her death. Frida
    spent the next month in hospital, and another 2 months at home recuperating, followed by
    32 operations during her life-time. Her first prolonged hospitalization gave her the
    opportunity to rethink her life and become a painter, in spite of constant pain and
    discomfort.
    Kahlo is a big women, her art is a chronicle of her personal pain and strength in the face of
    endless medical problems. Kahlo's work painted on canvas, wooden boards, and tin depicts
    her personal story; perhaps most riveting are the artist's many self-portraits. In them, Kahlo
    often painted herself in native Mexican dress, surrounded by her many pets and the lush
    vegetation of her homeland, her forehead or body imprinted with the people and events
    central to her life. Always intense and sometimes realistic or fantastic, her works show that
    her art and life were inseparable, fierce, timeless, and tragic. Kahlo had exhibitions of her
    paintings in New York City and Paris in the 1930s and associated with some of the most
    famous painters in the world. In 1953, when Frida Kahlo had her first exhibition in
    Mexico, a local critic wrote: "It is impossible to separate the life and work of this
    extraordinary person. Her paintings are her biography."

    She was single until 1929, when she married the famed muralist and social activist Diego
    Rivera, the couple became well known for their dedication to Mexico's populist causes and
    pride in their country's native culture. In 1932, Kahlo and Rivera lived in Michigan, in the
    United States, where Frida Kahlo miscarried a pregnancy. She immortalized her experience
    in a painting, Henry Ford Hospital.

    Frida and Diego divorced early in 1940, and soon after, Frida's health deteriorated. In the
    early 1930s, she developed an atrophic ulcer on her right foot, from which several
    gangrenous toes were amputated in 1934.
    In 1940, Frida Kahlo gained international recognition for her colorful and sometimes
    gruesome paintings (as well as for her bold public persona), but she continued to have
    health problems. She died in 1954, just after her 47th birthday.

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