Frida Fantastic!

Title: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 1931
Artist: Frida Kahlo (Mexican 1907-1954)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 39-3/8 x 31 inches
Permanent Collection: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albert M. Bender Collection, Gift of Albert M. Bender
© 2007 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av.
Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F.
Image Courtesy: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frida Kahlo painted her life! Vivid colors rendered in great detail, her figurative and fantastical paintings encompass intricate symbolism usually related to the artist's life such as the portrait of her family.

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Frida Kahlo's birth the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the second host of this retrospective of the Mexican artist. Walker Art Center in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized the exhibit that includes a selection of Kahlo’s self-portraits, still lifes, and portraits.

Title: Sylvia Salmi, Frida Kahlo, 1944
Artist: Sylvia Salmi
Permanent Collection: Vicente Wolf Photography Collection
Image Courtesy: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Title: The Frame, circa 1938
Artist: Frida Kahlo (Mexican 1907-1954)
Medium: Oil on Aluminum and Glass
Dimensions: 11-1/4 x 8-1/8 inches unframed
12-11/16 x 9-5/8 inches framed
Permanent Collection: Collection Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
© 2007 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av.
Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F.
Image Courtesy: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frida Kahlo took up painting in 1926, at the age of nineteen. It was a creative output for the ailing girl who was recuperating from a nearly fatal bus accident. Three years later, in 1929, she married the world famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.