Question

What does most of Frida Kahlo’s work depict? a. her split between her European and Mexican identity b. her loneliness in her personal life c. her desire for love and approval d. natural landscapes

Answer 1

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Answer 2

What does most of Frida Kahlo’s work depict?

A. her split between her European and Mexican identity.

Most of the artworks of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo depict the duality in her personal identity. Her father, Wilhelm Kahlo, was a Hungarian man who immigrated to Mexico and changed his name. He remarried Matilde Calderón who also had a dual ancestry (European and Indian American).

Frida was born afterwards, and when she grew up, she realized that she shared two identities as well. This notion would eventually help to construct her artworks. The clearest example of her European and Mexican identities can be seen in her painting Two Fridas (1939), which show two Fridas dressed in a European garment and a Tehuana dress.