An excerpt from The Inconvenient Spectacle of Frida Khalo

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This sample is from National Geographic, an excerpt from In Praise of Difficult Women Culture 1. I adore Frieda Khalo's art and Mexican folklore. I love how Frida confronted her pain head on. She did not shy away from the exquisite highs and lows of her life which she captured in a surrealist way.

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English

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Middle Aged (35-54)

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British (England - East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire) British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)

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In the summer of 1938 at the age of 31 Frida made her first sale. The actor Edward G. Robinson was also an art collector, and while he was in Mexico City, he purchased four pictures for $200 apiece. French artist Andre Breton also discovered her work, unheralded it as surrealist. Her paintings he infused were like a ribbon around a bomb. You might imagine that after labouring in the shadow of her husband for almost a solid decade, Frida would be thrilled on even grateful to be tapped for inclusion in a big deal art movement that included Power House painters Max Ernst, Marcel de Shaw, Andhra Neymar greet. But she wasn't much interested. She found the French to be insufferable, cold on bourgeois, and anyway, she was her own movement.