Frida Y Calderon Analysis

Magdalena Carmen Frida y Kahlo Calderon, also famously known as Frida Kahlo, is a famous female Mexican painter, born in 1907. She claims to be born in 1910 because that is the year Mexico was basically reborn, and also shows her strong connection with her country. Frida started painting at 19 years old, after her bus accident where she was bedridden in recovery for a long time. She always painted self-portraits of herself, which set the tone for her career in art. She quotes, ¨I paint my own reality,¨ basically explaining that she explains her life and what she goes through with paint and a canvas.

What made Frida’s paintings so famous and well-known was she often drew herself with a mustache and bold unibrow. She was not trying to preserve her youth, but show that beauty is defined differently for others, and

and the front of her to Mexico. In her right hand is a cigarette crossed under her left hand holding a faded Mexican flag. Frida is holding the cigarette toward America because after she was forced to move there due to her husband’s career, she started smoking which was very popular. She is holding the flag toward Mexico to symbolize that it is Mexico, and it is faded because we suggest she feels that her connection with her country might be fading.

The American side shows how it is being taken over by the industrial period and is artificial compared to Mexico. In the background, The U.S. flag is above FORD pipes which is shown blowing out smoke or steam, almost covering the flag. That suggests Frida has some sort of resentment toward the U.S. It could have possibly been because FORD Company was the reason why her and her husband had to move to America, because they asked him to paint murals in the