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Frida Kahlo, pavement art

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Saw this chalk drawing on the walk to work of what looks like the mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). I almost walked over it! It was on a pavement under the Eros statue, Picadilly Circus, London – it was quite faded (I tweaked the contrast in photoshop). it must have looked even better the day before.

Frida claimed to be born on 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution, because she wanted her life to begin together with the modern Mexico. This detail well introduces us to a singular personality, characterized since her childhood by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral ordinary habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humour.

Her life was marked by physical suffering, which started with the polio contracted at the age of five and worsen by her life-dominating event which occurred in 1925. A bus accident caused severe injuries to her body owing to a pole that pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. The medicine of her time tortured her body with surgical operations (32 throughout her life), corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching" systems.

Lots of her works were painted laying in bed. Because of these physical conditions Frida could not have children and this was devastating for her. She had a great love, Diego Rivera (she married twice with this man and dedicated to him a passionate diary) but also a lot of lovers, men and women, such as Leon Trotsky and André Breton's wife.

It is impossible to sum up in few lines the complexity and charm of Frida's life.

This summary was gleaned from a few sources on the web :D

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Image size
4288x4992px 12.83 MB
Make
SONY
Model
ILCE-7
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
35 mm
ISO Speed
2500
Date Taken
Oct 31, 2017, 6:37:20 AM
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