Kahlo Basic Art Series

$20.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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The arresting paintings of Frida Kahlo were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a passive victim, but rather intertwining expressions of her experience into a hybrid surreal-real language of living: hair, roots…