Frida Kahlo

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to FINALLY watch the movie Frida. Frida is a movie based on the life of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. I was very familiar of Frida's work, before the movie, and was curious to find more behind this revolutionary and outrageous artist. Many of her paintings focuse on the difficulties and tragedies that she endured through out her life. Frida's painting also exhibited many of the indiginous and color art that Frida loved so well. The movie begins with a young Frida Kahlo as a student and admirer of the arts. Her life takes a turn for the worst, when she was involved in a horrible and tragic bus accident that left her with fractures on her back, collar bone, ribs, as well as a shattered pelvis. As she lay in bed recovering, Frida began to tap into her inner artist and truly develope her own style. This style caught the attention of her future husband, Diego Rivera, another very well known Mexican artist. The move Frida, is not like any other biography that i have ever seen. The theme and style of the film is very intune with the mood and style of many of Frida's paintings. The actress Selma Hayek plays the painter Frida Khalo and does an amazing job at portraying and emodying the individuality, pain, suffering, and creativity that Frida Khalo was famous for. This movie has changed my prospective of who Frida Khalo and her paintings are. Her paintings are not only the images of her mind put on a canvas but her life and inner pain that sorrounded her while she was alive. I 100% recommend this movie and hope you truly get an understanding of who Frida Kahlo is.