Frida Kahlo

<p>The arresting pictures of <strong>Frida Kahlo</strong> (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she <strong>transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art</strong>.<br /><br /> In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim and rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a <strong>hybrid real-surreal language of living</strong>: hair, roots, veins, vines, tendrils and fallopian tubes. Many of her works also explore the <strong>Communist political ideals</strong> which Kahlo shared with her husband Diego Rivera. The artist described her paintings as <strong>“the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”</strong><br /><br /> This book introduces the rich body of Kahlo’s work to explore her unremitting determination as an artist, and her significance as a painter, feminist icon, and a pioneer of Latin American culture.</p>