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Anyone here like Frida Kahlo's work? She'd be 111 years old today. I became a fan after seeing an exhibition of her paintings in Phoenix. This was some years before the movie was released. She had a very sad life. When she was 18, she was seriously injured in a streetcar accident. For the rest of her life, she was a semi-invalid and in chronic pain until she died in her 40s. Because of her medical condition, she was never able to have children. And her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, cheated on her constantly. We have a reproduction of Yo Y Mis Pericos (Me and My Parrots) in the breakfast room (where we have our 2 parrots.)
Most of her paintings are depictions of herself. Her self-images are often surrealistic, portraying her body as bloodied, broken, and deformed. It may be disturbing to some viewers. But she's now the most highly valued Latin-American artist. In 2016, Two Nudes In A Forest (only a 10" x 12" oil on a metal panel) sold at auction for $8,000,000. She's getting into Georgia O'Keefe territory as one of the world's most expensive female painters.
Most of her paintings are depictions of herself. Her self-images are often surrealistic, portraying her body as bloodied, broken, and deformed. It may be disturbing to some viewers. But she's now the most highly valued Latin-American artist. In 2016, Two Nudes In A Forest (only a 10" x 12" oil on a metal panel) sold at auction for $8,000,000. She's getting into Georgia O'Keefe territory as one of the world's most expensive female painters.
