The life of frida kahlo


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With slim sable brushes, Frida Kahlo painstakingly rendered her bold unibrow and mustache in dozens of self-portraits.

This same Frida also shaved three years off her age, claiming 1910 to be the year she was born in Coyoac�n, Mexico, instead of 1907.

Vanity? Hardly. Frida, always her own favorite model, was not about preserving youthful beauty so much as identifying herself with Mexico, her beloved homeland.

The life of frida kahlo

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    • Frida's "acquired birth year" just so happens to coincide with the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution (1910) and the overthrow of President Porfirio Diaz.

    If her glaring lie seems jarring and incongruous � disturbing, even, in the face of her usual unabashed candor � reflect for a moment on the juxtaposed images that characterize her paintings.

    Frida never allowed apparent facts � her own birth certificate, for instance � to get in the way of a higher truth; the truth in this case being that she and modern Mexico were inextricably bound i