Frida Kahlo And The Mexican Revolution

Although born in 1907, renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo claimed to have been born in 1910, the date of the start of the Mexican Revolution. This national rebellion proved such an integral part of the artist’s life and work, that she correlates her entrance into the world with the moment in which the Mexican people began to act in force to restore their land to the hands of its citizens. “The wars, battles, and reforms lasted well into Frida’s later teens; this was particularly influential because the rebelliousness exhibited by her heroes inspired her to develop social awareness and rebellious characteristics of her own (Art Through Time).” She joined a political group at the school she was attending and eventually this lead to her evolving