Teresa Grenzmann

Frida Kahlo - The Great Masters of Art Teresa Grenzmann

Pride and strength, vulnerability and bitterness all lie close to each other in Frida Kahlo's art. Her self-portraits, which make up the principal part of her work, not infrequently show a charismatic woman dressed in traditional Tehuana costume, which the artist wore as a visible sign of her culture and her Mexican roots, but also to hide her wounds. Kahlo's biography had a direct influence on her subjects: her not uncomplicated marriage to the artist Diego Rivera, her tragic accident, and her childlessness, loneliness and grief.

Through the frequent exaggeration into the realm of the fantastic in the representation of her scenes, her style has often been classified as Surrealist, but Kahlo refused to be allocated to this category: "People regarded me as a Surrealist. That is wrong. I never painted dreams.

What I portrayed was my reality."