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INSPIRED BY, INSPIRED BY FRIDA KAHLO / ABOUT THE ARTIST FRIDA KAHLO:
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Coyoacán, 6 July 1907 there, 13 July 1954) was a Mexican surrealist painter. Frida Kahlo's work is characterised by cheerful colours, but contrasted with an alienating atmosphere. She did not shy away from controversy. In a painting in memory of the actress Dorothy Hale, for instance, she depicted the moment of her suicide very realistically and in great detail. In her self-portraits, the furrowed eyebrows are particularly striking. She paints from her fear and loneliness to overcome her pain. Kahlo left 143 paintings, 55 of which are self-portraits. in November 1938, she had her first solo exhibition, at the gallery of art dealer Julien Levy in New York. In 1953, she had her first exhibition in Mexico. The classification as a surrealist came from André Breton, founder of the surrealist movement in art. Kahlo herself rejected this label, saying she never painted her dreams but her own reality. In January 1939, she travelled to Paris at Breton's invitation to exhibit her work. She did not like the surrealist milieu in that city, which she found bloated and unreal. When, with the help of Marcel Duchamp, she opened her exhibition on 10 March, she won the praise of Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso. The Louvre bought her self-portrait Autorretrato - El marco ("the frame") and Vogue magazine placed her hand (with jewels) on the cover Kahlo died in 1954, a week after her 47th birthday. She left a note saying 'I hope the end is happy and hope never to return'.
