Frida, a woman printed on Mexican coins, was probably unique as a painter. If you've ever been to Mexico, you'll know her, because her image appears before you from time to time, crafts, costumes, the image of that beautiful woman with a one-line eyebrow that is almost everywhere, becoming a specific symbol, about art, about fashion, even about love.
Frida self-portrait
God closes a door for you and opens a window for you, and this phrase is appropriate for Frida. Frida, who was born beautiful, was astonishingly beautiful, but accompanied by childhood polio, she was a disabled person, but this seemed to have little effect on her, she was very active in school, participated in various clubs, and became the leader of a small society composed mainly of boys, and once by chance, she met the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera on campus. He was brought in to paint murals for the school's auditorium. Everything seems to make sense, Frida fell in love with a painter, although it was only a vague crush, and from then on she was also fascinated by painting, everything is so beautiful.
Frida in creation
Frida's work is almost all about herself, starting from when she was 18 years old, when she suffered a particularly serious car accident and dozens of fractures all over her body, and it is described that Frida was like a broken glass, and it was a miracle to survive, although her life was saved, but the pain accompanied her all her life. Lying on her hospital bed, she began to paint, and the most she painted was herself in the mirror, a line of eyebrows, colorful Mexican clothes, which became the symbol of her life's painting, Frida said, "I paint self-portraits because I always feel the loneliness of being alone, but also because I know myself best."
A few years later, Frida got back on her feet again, and by chance again, she met the muralist Diego Rivera again, Diego Rivera was 20 years older than Frida, had just ended her second marriage, he saw Frida's paintings, he thought she was very talented, so he began to teach her to paint, they had common beliefs, they were all communists, and they admired each other's talents, they were simply gods. But the artist's love is often not smooth sailing, and all kinds of accidents appear from time to time, and passion and pain follow. Frida said, "I have suffered two misfortunes in my life, once when I knocked down my street car and once when I met Diego Rivera".
However, if it were not for these two misfortunes, Frida must not be what she is now, and she may be an ordinary woman who has lived an ordinary life all her life, just like most people.
Frida lived only 47 years, and this short life was almost spent in pain, but she miraculously became one of the most accomplished painters in the history of world art, becoming a painter with the same name as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dali, and Picasso said, "I can't paint self-portraits like her."
Long live life
Frida had only one exhibition in her life, in 1953, and she was carried to the hall on a stretcher in the anticipation of crazy admirers, and the exhibition was a great success. But a year later Frida died, and a few days before leaving, he painted a strange watermelon, titled "Long Live Life", and wrote the date of her death on an open watermelon. "I want to die a pleasure, and I hope never to come again", these are the last words Frida left for the world in her diary.