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Frida Kahlo

By evelynmira

  • Frida Kahlo Brith

    Frida Kahlo Brith
    Magdalena Carmen Frieda Calderon is born in the "Blue House" in Coyoacán, Mexico.

  • 1913

    At age 6, Frida is struck with polio affecting the use of her right leg

  • Poem

    Poem
    Frida's poem "Recuerdo [Memory]" is published by "El Universal Ilustrado". The Mexican mural movement begins.

  • Injury

    Injury
    Frida and her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, get onto a bus to head home from school. Shortly afterwards, the bus is stuck broadside by a tram. Frida sustains multiple injuries, a broken pelvic bone, spinal column, and other severe injuries,.

  • Frida Kahlo Starts Painting

    Frida Kahlo Starts Painting
    During her months of convalescence from the bus accident she begins to take painting seriously. She experiments first with watercolors and then oil.

  • 1928

    1928
    Kahlo joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1928,

  • Frida Kahlo Dies

    Frida Kahlo Dies
    "I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return — Frida"
    About a week after her forty-seventh birthday, Kahlo died on July 13 at her beloved Blue House. There has been some speculation regarding the nature of her death. It was reported to be caused by a pulmonary embolism, but there have also been stories about a possible suicide.