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ARTISTIC TRIUMPH OVER PAIN
Hailed as one of Mexico's greatest artists, Frida Kahlo's works takes you into a world of the surreal, erotic, sensual and bizarre. During her life-time Frida was overshadowed by the works of her husband Diego Rivera, the great Mexican muralist but in time developed a devoted following of her own after her death. Kahlo was able to produce two hundred paintings during the course of her life in which the vast majority were self-potraits.

Born of a Hungarian-German Jewish immigrant father and a Spanish-Indian mother from Mexico in 1907, Frida emerged as a powerful and charismatic personality. Pain is a theme that dominated her paintings throughout her life time and it is through her pain that she emerged as an artist.

Kultur video takes us on a journey of exploration in showing us how Frida emerged as a painter with her own unique style. At the age of six she was assaulted by polio in her right leg but the worse was yet to come. While riding on a bus with her boy friend an accident occurred which would change her life. Impaled by an iron guard rail through her pelvis Frida was thought to be dead. This strong surviver refused the invitation of death and worked out her pain through deciding to paint. Her decision resulted in her life long quest of working out her pain through her self portraits.

Our narrator takes us on a chronilogical tour of Frida's paintings and experiments from 1925 to 1954. You see her early attempts of pencil sketches, stream of consciousness paintings, frescoes and her narrative pictures. Your eyes are assaulted with her bold use of color, her sexual depiction of lucious fruit that tells more then you see, and even Frida herself make herself into both male and female.

Ahead of her time,Frida gives rise to a feminism that refuses to be locked into the male artistic view of life. Through her eyes you see her woundedness, betrayal and tumultuous relationship in her marriage with Diego. Each brush stroke shows us the pain but arrives at the triumph of this great artist of our time.

Displayed in this video with an analysis of each of her works is her 1940 Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair which was painted in anger against Diego. Her 1932 Portrait of Luther Burbank shows her refining her unique style for portrature. Her 1945 painting entitled Without Hope shows her frustration with her deteriorating physical condition.

This video has done an excellent job in showing you the finest of this artist's work. She is inspiring but at times gazing at her works is just to much to bear. Your eyes may draw away but then end up being hypnotized by the work of Frida who draws you to her in death as well as life. Indulge yourself in meditating and reflecting over the message which Frida gives to you.