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Frida Kahlo: Mexico City
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Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón in her parents' house in Coyoacán, which at the time was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father was a painter and photographer of German-Jewish background, whose family originated from Oradea, Romania.
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The Frida Kahlo skin care line and retail store are the brainchild of Venezuelan-born aromatherapist, holistic cosmetologist, and Naturals Skin Care CEO, Antonio Sciortino. Last year, Sciortino and partners Carlos Dorado, President of Casablanca Fashion Group, Alberto Perosch, and Antonino Sciortino met with the Kahlo family in Mexico to acquire the rights to the name and likeness of the renowned painter and activist for their skin care line.
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"In 1953, when Frida Kahlo had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime), a local critic wrote: 'It is impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person. Her paintings are her biography.' This observation serves to explain both why her work is so different from that of her contemporaries, the Mexican Muralists, and why she has since become a feminist icon.
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Frida Kahlo had to paint. Just as everyone needs water, food, and air to live, Frida felt like she needed to paint in order to survive. Eventually, she became one of Mexico's most celebrated artists — not to mention gained fame all over the world. Born in Mexico in 1907 (and died in 1954), Frida Kahlo had a difficult life. At the age of seven she suffered from a disease called polio, and when she was 18 she was in a terrible bus accident. She was often in pain and had to stay in bed; as a result she created imaginary friends and turned to painting when she was bored or sad.
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If you were to ask her, Frida Kahlo would tell you she was born in 1910, the year the Mexican Revolution began. Her birth certificate... read “July 6, 1907.” Though she wasn’t truly born in the same year as the new Mexico, Kahlo’s life, art, and identity were inseparable from her Mexican culture. She was known for dressing in the traditional Mexican style of long, colorful dresses, woven shawls, and bright flowers or elaborate jewelry. The same color palette and themes of cultural identity can be seen in her art.
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Biography: Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacan, a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. She died in Coyoacan in 1954 at the age of 47. The daughter of a German emigrant father and a mestizo mother, Frida contracted polio at the age of six, which left her right leg skinnier than the other. She grew up during the Mexican Revolution, which started in 1910. In 1925, at the age of 18, she was involved in an accident between the bus she was riding on and a trolley, leaving her with serious injuries, including a broken spine and pelvis, and multiple fractures to her right leg and foot, as well as a pierced abdomen and uterus. She suffered from the after-effects of her injuries, often in great pain, the rest of her life, often leaving her bedridden for months at a time.
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