PAINTER

Frida Kahlo

1907 - 1954

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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frida Kahlo has received more than 29,574,523 page views. Her biography is available in 157 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 150 in 2019). Frida Kahlo is the 11th most popular painter (down from 6th in 2019), the most popular biography from Mexico and the most popular Mexican Painter.

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who is most famous for her self-portraits.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frida Kahlo ranks 11 out of 2,023. Before her are Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch, and Peter Paul Rubens. After her are Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, and Sandro Botticelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Astrid Lindgren, Claus von Stauffenberg, Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, John Wayne, Edwin McMillan, Mircea Eliade, J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Laurence Olivier, and Hergé. Among people deceased in 1954, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Henri Matisse, Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, and André Derain.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Frida Kahlo ranks 1 out of 729. After her are Anthony Quinn (1915), Diego Rivera (1886), Moctezuma II (1466), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Slim (1940), Pancho Villa (1878), Octavio Paz (1914), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Carlos Santana (1947), Cuauhtémoc (1495), and Salma Hayek (1966).

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Among PAINTERS In Mexico

Among painters born in Mexico, Frida Kahlo ranks 1. After her are Diego Rivera (1886), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), José Clemente Orozco (1883), Rufino Tamayo (1899), Juan O'Gorman (1905), Emmanuel Lubezki (1964), Francisco Toledo (1940), and Ignacio Ortiz (1934).

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