The Life of Frida Kahlo

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Her birth certificate says July 6, 1910, but Frida Kahlo always insisted her birthday was July 7 during the Mexican revolution. This is the artist's life.

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00:30This accident led Frida Kahlo to spend a lot of time in bed and this is the beginning of

00:58the career of a great artist, but it is also the beginning of the deterioration of her

01:02body.

01:03It is in this period that she begins to paint.

01:28I have always said that Diego and Frida are like our first couple, our Adam and Eve,

01:39since that is where we really emerge as a culture.

01:58It was right here in New York when she was recognized for her first exhibition in 1938.

02:19The story of Frida Kahlo, the woman and the artist, is known, which is when all the

02:24Fridomania began.

02:43She chooses a dress that is not just a dress that she chooses by chance, it is a dress,

02:50she could have chosen any of the dresses that we have around the Mexican Republic,

02:58of different ethnic groups, but she chooses a dress that symbolizes a powerful woman,

03:04this dress comes from a matriarchy, from a society run by women.

03:10The construction of this dress is made up of a tocado, a short huipil and a long skirt.

03:16That means that when you see her in front of you, when the spectator is looking at her,

03:21she is editing because you are looking at her from the torso up, because all the decoration

03:26is concentrated here, the necklaces, and it distracts you from her injured legs and also

03:33from the injured body.

04:04Humor is deeper than song, and I think with Frida Kahlo you could say that is a very apt,

04:10I don't think without the tragedy of Frida you can have the humor and without the humor

04:15you can't have the tragedy, so this film is a real balancing point of those two natures

04:21of Frida Kahlo.

04:33Frida Kahlo is not a product.

05:03Frida Kahlo is not a brand.

05:04Frida Kahlo is an artist.

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