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Kahlo broke her spinal column, collarbone, ribs, hip and right leg in various places. She was also impaled through her abdomen by an iron handrail that detached from the bus. Frida was not expected to survive her injuries.<\/p>\n
When Frida came home to convalesce in her family home in Coyoac\u00e1n, her mother arranged for a customised easel, and a mirror was installed in the canopy of her four-poster bed.<\/p>\n
Frida began to paint. Self-portraiture became a primary focus of her art. It is the genre for which she is best known and celebrated today.<\/p>\n
Over the course of twenty years, between her 1925 accident and her death in 1954 at the age of 47, Kahlo’s poetic self-portraiture explored her philosophical ideas, her passion for Mexico, and her personal pain and trauma.<\/p>\n
Her bold and unflinching depictions of her disabilities, medical treatments, prostheses and aids, as well as her physical and emotional pain, broke taboos then and now.<\/p>\n
Bendigo Art Gallery’s exclusive international exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: In her own image’ on from 15 March \u2013 13 July 2025, features Kahlo’s personal belongings, clothing, make-up, accessories, and medical items, on loan from the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico for the first time in Australia.<\/p>\n
This article has been compiled with the curatorial research of Circe Henestrosa and Gannit Ankori, curators of Frida Kahlo: In her own image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MAGDALENA Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calder\u00f3n was born on 6 July 1907, in her family home, La Casa Azul (the Blue House) in Coyoac\u00e1n, at that time a village on the fringe of Mexico City. Frida lived her formative years against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution (1910\u20131920) and the cultural renaissance which followed. Frida […]<\/p>\n