Name: 芙烈達-卡蘿。傳奇背後的女人--伊索爾特-吉萊斯皮 (Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend - Iseult Gillespie)
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Frida Kahlo was on her way home  from school in Mexico City

when the bus she was riding  collided with a streetcar.

She suffered near-fatal injuries  to her spine, pelvis and hips,

she had a special easel  attached to her bed

so she could practice  painting techniques.

she began to paint the world according  to her own singular vision.

she would establish herself as the creator and muse behind extraordinary art.

Though you may have met  Kahlo's gaze before,

her work provides an opportunity  to see the world through her eyes.

but it was her mesmerizing self-portraits

which first caught the world's attention.

the focus is on her strong brows, facial  hair, long neck and formidable stare.

but Kahlo soon began to present herself  in more unusual ways.

religious imagery and a ruptured landscape to reveal her physical and mental state.

In 1928, Kahlo started dating  fellow painter Diego Rivera.

They became lifelong partners and  cultivated an eccentric celebrity.

Together, they traveled the world and  dedicated themselves to art,

Communist politics and  Mexican nationalism.

Kahlo and Rivera shared a  deep affinity with Mexicanidad,

a movement which celebrated indigenous  culture after the Revolution.

In her daily life, Kahlo wore  traditional Tehuana dress

and immersed herself  in native spirituality.

she constantly referenced  Mexican folk painting,

and references to death,  religion and nature.

With her imagery of giant  floating flowers,

undulating landscapes, transplanted body  parts and billowing clouds of demons,

Kahlo has often been associated  with Surrealism.

But while surrealists used dreamlike  images to explore the unconscious mind,

Kahlo used them to represent her  physical body and life experiences.

were her physical disabilities  and her marriage.

she experienced life-long health  complications

She often contemplated the physical and  psychological effects

or including objects such as her back brace and wheelchair.

Meanwhile, her relationship with Rivera was tempestuous,

she painted the double self-portrait  "The Two Fridas,"

which speaks to the anguish of loss  and a splintered sense of self.

The Frida to the left has a broken heart,

which drips blood onto her  old-fashioned Victorian dress.

She symbolizes a version of the artist  who is wounded by the past–

but is also connected by an  artery to a second self.

This Frida is dressed in Tehuana attire–

and although she remembers Diego  with the tiny portrait in her hand,

Together, the two suggest a position  caught between past and present,

she experienced a surge in popularity  that has lasted to this day.

reminds us that there are no simple truths

about the life, work and legacy of the  woman behind the icon.

Rather, she put multiple versions of  her reality on display–

and provided us with a few entry-ways  into the contents of her soul.