The Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known not only for her work, but also for her stormy relationship with fellow artist and compatriot Diego Rivera, also what has made her very popular has been her way of seeing life and the phrases she has left behind. embodied.
Her work mainly includes self-portraits of herself, often unsmiling but in vibrant colours, and the themes that concern her are identity, the human body and death. Her technocriticism includes her in surrealism, although she herself denies any connection to this artistic movement.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, which was her real name, was born on July 6, 1907 in the town of Coyoacán, which today is part of the historic center of Mexico City, the capital of Mexico.
The father was German with Hungarian roots and his mother was Spanish with indigenous roots from the area. Later, during her artistic journey, Frida Kahlo would explore her identity, describing it as the result of two opposing forces: her European colonial side and her indigenous side.
Although Frida Kahlo was a successful artist during her lifetime, her posthumous fame has grown steadily since the 1970s, reaching what some critics call “Fridamania” in the 21st century.
The dramatic events of his life—the debilitating injury, the troubled marriage, the shocking love affairs, and the resort to alcohol and drugs—inspired many books and movies after his death.
Frida Kahlo quotes
Next we can know the best phrases that Frida Kahlo has given us.
“Sometimes I prefer to talk to workers and bricklayers than to those stupid people who call themselves cultured people.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am alone a lot. I paint myself, because I’m the one I know best.”
“If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then will you realize how special you are to me.”
“Growing up is learning to love beautiful, to miss in silence, to remember without rancor and to forget slowly.”
“So absurd and fleeting is our passage through this world, that only the knowledge that I have been authentic, that I have managed to be the closest thing to myself, leaves me calm.”
“I am my only muse, the subject I know best.”
“I used to think that I was the weirdest person in the world, but then I thought: there has to be someone like me who feels weird and imperfect, the same way that I do.”
“My body would like to sleep in the middle of the night and, in this darkness, be awakened by your kisses. My night knows no dream more beautiful and more cruel than this.”
