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Summary Of Frida Kahlo´s The Broken Column

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“The Broken Column” is a breathtaking piece of art that expresses truly how much pain and suffering the creator was go through when the piece was created. This art piece is a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter from Mexico City (1907–1954) in the surrealism period. She is best known for her wrenching, and mysterious self-portraits she painted. At a young age Frida was involved in a terrible bus action which caused her chronic pain and health issues for the rest of her life. It was after a spinal surgery that she created this painting.
The Broken Column is oil on Masonite painting that is 39.8 cm high and 30.6 cm, which was completed in 1944. She combined traditional Mexican folk art with surrealism, which made her paintings a

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