More than a century after Goethe’s theoretical inquiry into the emotional hues of color, Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) contemplated the question from a far more intuitive place in a fragment from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait ( public library) — the treasure trove that gave us the visionary Mexican painter’s DIY paint recipe, her ferocious political convictions, and her stunning handwritten love letters to Diego Rivera. But who was this Dr Farill? Why is Kahlo dressed the way she is? What has Catholicism got to do with that palette on her lap? Wait, is that a palette or a heart? Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances". The New York Times. 17 January 2020. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Galicia, Fernando (22 November 2018). "Frida Kahlo Pinturas, autorretratos y sus significados". La Hoja de Arena . Retrieved 13 May 2019. Deffebach, Nancy (2006). "Frida Kahlo: Heroism of Private Life". In Brunk, Samuel; Fallow, Ben (eds.). Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71481-6.

Kahlo (y Calderón), (Magdalena Carmen) Frida". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 11 November 2020. doi: 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00096735. ISBN 9780199899913 . Retrieved 4 March 2021. Although Kahlo featured herself and events from her life in her paintings, they were often ambiguous in meaning. [116] She did not use them only to show her subjective experience but to raise questions about Mexican society and the construction of identity within it, particularly gender, race, and social class. [117] Historian Liza Bakewell has stated that Kahlo "recognized the conflicts brought on by revolutionary ideology":Durozoi, Gerard (2002). History of the Surrealist Movement. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. p.356. ISBN 978-0-226-17412-9.

Michael Marra sings Frida Kahlo's visit to the Taybridge Bar" . YouTube . Archived from the original on 27 October 2021 . Retrieved 24 July 2021. SFWA History Timeline" (PDF). San Francisco Women Artists. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2014 . Retrieved 20 July 2016.Bilek, Suzanne (2012). Great female artists of Detroit. Charleston. ISBN 978-1-60949-671-5. OCLC 806018780. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Despite the medical treatment she had received in San Francisco, Kahlo's health problems continued throughout the 1940s. Due to her spinal problems, she wore twenty-eight separate supportive corsets, varying from steel and leather to plaster, between 1940 and 1954. [238] She experienced pain in her legs, the infection on her hand had become chronic, and she was also treated for syphilis. [239] The death of her father in April 1941 plunged her into a depression. [234] Her ill health made her increasingly confined to La Casa Azul, which became the center of her world. She enjoyed taking care of the house and its garden, and was kept company by friends, servants, and various pets, including spider monkeys, Xoloitzcuintlis, and parrots. [240] Kahlo (centre), Nayantara Sahgal (right) and Rita Dar at Casa Azul in 1947 The book is the masterpiece of her writing and at the same time an open work 1. This complex, synesthetic and polyphonic object is an experimental hybrid that groups a plurality of signs: calligraphy, self-portraits, letters, numbers, automatic drawings, spots, pre-Hispanic and oriental symbols, as if you wanted to collect in that kind of album-book, apart from the ultimate will of the author, everything significant of a lifetime. Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art Opens at Museum of Modern Art" (PDF). Museum of Modern Art. 15 May 1940 . Retrieved 25 July 2016. It was also through a letter, in 1934, that Frida expressed to her friends Ella and Bertram D. Wolfe "the greatest sadness" of her life: the amorous betrayal of Diego with her own sister, Cristina Kahlo. Impassioned, she admitted having been under the illusion that she could change Diego's promiscuous behavior. Now, she thought they would have to separate, even though she still loved him.