Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo

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Arias and Kahlo were often separated from each other, due to the political instability and violence of the period, so they exchanged passionate love letters. In 1950, Kahlo spent most of the year in Hospital ABC in Mexico City, where she underwent a new bone graft surgery on her spine. The Mexicanidad movement claimed to resist the "mindset of cultural inferiority" created by colonialism, and placed special importance on indigenous cultures. During this period, Kahlo also witnessed violent armed struggles in the streets of Mexico City as the Mexican Revolution continued.

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Shortly after their introduction in 1928, Kahlo asked him to judge whether her paintings showed enough talent for her to pursue a career as an artist. Similarly to many other contemporary Mexican artists, Kahlo was heavily influenced by Mexicanidad, a romantic nationalism that had developed in the aftermath of the revolution. They created large public pieces in the vein of Renaissance masters and Russian socialist realists: they usually depicted masses of people, and their political messages were easy to decipher. Rivera was also in San Francisco after he fled Mexico City following Trotsky's murder and accepted a commission.

When she arrived, she found that he had not cleared her paintings from the customs and no longer even owned a gallery. Her early paintings and correspondence show that she drew inspiration especially from European artists, in particular Renaissance masters such as Sandro Botticelli and Bronzino [17] and from avant-garde movements such as Neue Sachlichkeit and Cubism. While Arias suffered minor injuries, Frida was impaled with an iron handrail that went through her pelvis. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still – so she began to paint.