Una hermosa tragedia- the pain that made frida kahlo

Dark yet beautiful. You can feel the emotion in every little detail of Frida Kahlo paintings. But what’s the method behind them. Frida was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón in 1907 in the Mexico City borough of Coyoacán in “la casa Azul”. Her life would begin and end in this very same home. She led a very normal but emotionally intense childhood. Her mother Matilde was intense and overly religious while her father was a photographer. She was always eccentric and outspoken until she contracted polio when she was 6 making her a target of bullies. She became an introvert from then on. She became rebellious in her teen years joining a group of rebellious teens during the revolution that debated

Frida’s paintings were unapologetically beautiful and eccentric embodying women’s issues and sexuality. Her marriage to Diego Rivera was anything but healthy and normal. Diego was unfaithful and so was Frida. Stepping out to be with both men and women. Her broken marriage wasn’t the last straw. She suffered a miscarriage while in New York. The doctor told her she her body wasn’t able to nurture children due to the lasting impacts of the bus accident she had been in years earlier. We see her brokenness in paintings like las dos fridas, what water gave me and the wounded dear. She died a mysterious death in “la casa azul” july 17, 1954 after a very tormented life. In her final days she wrote in her diary, "I joyfully await the exit and I hope never to return” ("Espero alegre la salida y espero no volver jamás"). The beautiful, yet dark nature of her photos are very relatable by many women. Her paintings focus more on things us women can relate to like unfaithfulness and losing a child. Even in her self portraits, you can see the pain and sadness on her face. Many times dressed in traditional Mexican gear with her hair in 2 braids with he thick eyebrows prominent.