Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was renowned for her imaginative self-portraits and her troubled marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo’s surrealist painting was strongly influenced by Mexican folk traditions, as well as the physical suffering she experienced her whole life due to a childhood car accident. “Self-Portrait With Monkeys” raises questions of what it is to be human.
Self-Portrait With Monkeys, after Frida KahloFrida Kahlo Mexican (1907 - 1954) |
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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was renowned for her imaginative self-portraits and her troubled marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo’s surrealist painting was strongly influenced by Mexican folk traditions, as well as the physical suffering she experienced her whole life due to a childhood car accident. “Self-Portrait With Monkeys” raises questions of what it is to be human. |
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