Art and Style
Frida Kahlo is best known for painting this type of personal artwork.
What is Mexican folk art?
This painting features Frida standing in traditional Mexican dress with a backdrop of nature.
What is 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird'?
This is the country where Frida Kahlo was born.
What is Mexico?
Frida Kahlo is often regarded as a symbol of pride for this group of people, particularly for her representation of indigenous culture.
Who are Mexicans?
Frida Kahlo's husband was also a famous artist known for painting murals.
Who is Diego Rivera?
The bright, vivid colors in Frida's paintings are characteristic of this art movement, which she is often associated with.
What is Mexican folk art?
This famous painting shows Frida in a hospital bed surrounded by Mexican iconography, representing her ongoing medical struggles.
What is 'The Broken Column'?
Frida Kahlo was born in the year 1907, in this month.
What is July?
In 1984, Mexico declared her artwork part of this, making it illegal to export her art.
What is the national cultural heritage?
Due to a severe accident at 18, Frida underwent over 30 of these medical procedures.
What are surgeries?
Frida said she paints herself because she is often alone and knows herself best. This is a form of this type of painting.
What is self-portraiture?
This painting, perhaps her most famous, shows two versions of Frida sitting side by side.
What is 'The Two Fridas'?
This is the name of Frida Kahlo's family home, often called the 'Blue House.'
What is La Casa Azul?
This international institution houses one of her most famous works, 'Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair.
What is the Museum of Modern Art?
Besides art, Frida was involved in this political ideology, joining the Mexican Communist Party.
What is communism?
Frida Kahlo's art is often associated with this movement that combines dreamy scenes with reality.
What is surrealism?
This painting involves both Diego Rivera's face on her forehead and a puzzle of birth and death.
What is 'Diego and I'?
Frida was born in this suburb of Mexico City.
What is Coyoacán?
This is the name of the critically acclaimed film about Frida's life, released in 2002.
What is 'Frida'?
Frida and Diego lived in this U.S. city while Diego was working on a mural commission.
What is Detroit?
Her painting 'The Two Fridas' was completed in 1939, during this major event in her life.
What is her divorce from Diego Rivera?
This painting is about Frida's miscarriage during her time in Detroit, often called 'Henry Ford Hospital.'
What is 'The Flying Bed'?
Frida was diagnosed with this disease at age six, which left one of her legs thinner than the other.
What is polio?
Frida Kahlo is featured on the face of this type of Mexican currency, introduced in 2010
What is the 500-peso bill?
Frida had a close friendship with this famous communist leader who sought refuge in Mexico.
Who is Leon Trotsky?