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Frida Kahlo

1907 - 1954

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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frida Kahlo is the 8th most popular painter (up from 11th in 2019), the most popular biography from Mexico and the most popular Mexican Painter.

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who is most famous for her self-portraits.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frida Kahlo ranks 8 out of 2,023. Before her are Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, and Albrecht Dürer. After her are Claude Monet, Peter Paul Rubens, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, and Sandro Botticelli.

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Among people born in 1907, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Astrid Lindgren, Edwin McMillan, Claus von Stauffenberg, John Wayne, Ayub Khan, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, Alexander R. Todd, W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, and J. Hans D. Jensen. Among people deceased in 1954, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Henri Matisse, Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Otto Diels, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, and Getúlio Vargas.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Frida Kahlo ranks 1 out of 729. After her are Diego Rivera (1886), Anthony Quinn (1915), Moctezuma II (1466), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Santana (1947), Carlos Slim (1940), Octavio Paz (1914), Pancho Villa (1878), Cuauhtémoc (1495), and Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794).

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Among PAINTERS In Mexico

Among painters born in Mexico, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Diego Rivera (1886), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), José Clemente Orozco (1883), Rufino Tamayo (1899), Juan O'Gorman (1905), Emmanuel Lubezki (1964), Francisco Toledo (1940), and Ignacio Ortiz (1934).

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