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BORN
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Nacio en Coyoacan, D.F. -
POLIO
Frida Kahlo has poor health in her childhood. She contracted polio at age of 6 and had to be bedridden for nine months. -
MEET DIEGO RIVERA
Frida Kahlo reconnected with Rivera. She asked him to evaluate her work and he encouraged her. The two soon started the romantic relationship -
ACCIDENT
The bus collided with a streetcar and Frida Kahlo was seriously injured. A steel handrail impaled her through the hip.
She was injured so badly and had to stay in the Red Cross Hospital in Mexico City for several weeks. After that she returned home for further recovery. She had to wear full body cast for three months. -
MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
Frida Kahlo reconnected with Rivera. She asked him to evaluate her work and he encouraged her. The two soon started the romantic relationship -
WEEDING
Frida and Diego get married in Coyoacan -
SAN FRANCISCO
Frida had to move a lot based on Diego's work, they lived in San Francisco -
NEW YORK GALLERY.
Kahlo was living in New York City with husband Diego Rivera. Rivera was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller to create a mural named as Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center. Rivera tried to include Vladimir Lenin in the painting, who is a communist leader. Rockefeller stopped his work and that part was painted over. The couple had to move back to Mexico after this incident. They returned and live in San Angel, Mexico. -
HENRY FORD HOSPITAL
In the painting titled Henry Ford Hospital(1932), Frida Kahlo lied on a hospital bed naked and was surrounded with a few things floating around, which includes a fetus, a flower, a pelvis, a snail, all connected by veins. This painting was an expression of her feelings about her second miscarriage. It is as personal as her other self-portraits. -
ROCKEFELLER
Kahlo was living in New York City with husband Diego Rivera. Rivera was commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller to create a mural named as Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center. Rivera tried to include Vladimir Lenin in the painting, who is a communist leader. Rockefeller stopped his work and that part was painted over. The couple had to move back to Mexico after this incident. They returned and live in San Angel, Mexico. -
MISCARRIAGE
She was heartbroken when she experienced a second miscarriage -
LEON TROSTKY
they helped Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia. Leon Trotsky is a exiled communist and rival of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Kahlo and Rivera welcomed the couple together and let them stay at her Blue House. Kahlo also had a brief affair with Leon Trotsky when the couple stayed at her house. -
ANDRÈ BRETON
Frida Kahlo became friend of Andre Breton, who is one of the primary figures of Surrealism movement. -
NEW YORK GALLERY
In the same year, she had an exhibition at New York City gallery. She sold some of her paintings and got two commissions. One of that is from Clare Boothe Luce to paint her friend Dorothy Hale who committed suicide. She painted The Suicide of Dorothy Hale (1939), which tells the story of Dorothy's tragic leap. The patron Luce was horrified and almost destroyed this painting. -
PARIS
Kahlo was invited by Andre Breton and went to Paris. Her works are exhibited there and she is befriended with artists such as Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso. She and Rivera got divorced that year and she painted one of her most famous painting, The Two Fridas. -
SECOND WEDDING
But soon Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera remarried -
THE BROKEN COLUMN
Frida Kahlo painted one of her most famous portrait, The Broken Column. -
AMPUTATION
That year she was diagnosed with gangrene in her right foot. She became bedridden for the next nine month and had to stay in hospital and had several surgeries. But with great persistence, Frida Kahlo continued to work and paint. -
DEATH
Frida Kahlo has been out and in hospital during that year. But despite her health issues, she has been active with the political movement. She showed up at the demonstration against US backed overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala on July 2. This is her last public appearance. About one week after her 47th birthday, Frida Kahlo passed away at her beloved Bule House. She was publicly reported to die of a pulmonary embolism. -
FRIDA KAHLO`S FAME
Her Blue House was opened as a museum in the year of 1958. In 1970s the interest on her work and life are renewed due to the feminist movement, since she was viewed as an icon of female creativity. In 1983, Hayden Herrera published his book on her, A Biography of Frida Kahlo. In the year of 2002, a movie named Frida was released, staring alma Hayek as Frida Kahlo and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and won for Best Makeup and Original Score.
