Frida khalo

FRIDA KAHLO:

  Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) remains best-known for her vibrant self-portraits, which comprise 55 of her 143 paintings and combine elements from traditional       Mexican art with a surrealist aesthetic. 

 

   This incredible women paint her self because often she fell alone and because the subject she know best.

 

   In this painting, Frida takes an opposite view to her husband, who was expressing his approval of industrial progress in a mural in the Rockefeller Center.

   After more than three years in America, Frida wanted desperately to return to her native Mexico. Diego, however, remained fascinated by the country and his popularity and did not want to leave.

 

  It may be her way of saying "I may be in America but only my dress hangs there…my life is in Mexico."

  She signed this painting on the back in chalk and added the inscription: "I painted this in New York when Diego was painting the mural in Rockefeller Center".