Frida Kahlo

Self-portrait Wearing a Velvet dress, 1926. Oil on canvas.

Thinking about Death, 1943. Oil on canvas mounted on masonite.

Diego in my Thoughts, 1943. Oil on masonite.

The Broken Column, 1944. Oil on masoite.

Self-portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 1937. Oil on masonite.

Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1937. Oil on masonite.

The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas.











Kahlo's most work used symbols to show the "female struggle in a world of patriarchal domination." In her other work the author also worte, "her confessional paintings, full of symbols of physical fortitude," (page 6).  I think in some of her self-portraits paintings it shows her pain, her thoughts, for example Thinking about Death, 1943 and Diego in my Thoughts, 1943.



Fida Kahlo
Frank Milner
First published in 1995
Bison Books Ltd
ISBN 1-85841-160-2