#mexican painter

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón

6 July 1907-13 July 1954 (aged 47)

Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico

Periods: Naive art, Modern art, Surrealism, Magical realism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Naturalism, Social realism, Cubism

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portrait and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country popular culture, she employed a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience chronic pain.