biography
pronunciation:
[kahloh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1907–54)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Coyoicoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She began painting while convalescing from a serious road accident at the age of 15, and sent her work to the painter Diego Rivera, whom she later married (1928). Characterized by vibrant imagery, many of her pictures were striking self-portraits. Pain, which dogged her all her life, and the suffering of women, are recurring and indelible themes in her Surrealistic and often shocking pictures. André Breton likened her paintings to ‘a ribbon around a bomb’ (1938). |
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