His life would be a long and painful search for a mental and physical cure that he would not achieve. His pain would be channeled into his art as a way to attempt healing.
Frida Kahlo’s life was the result of deep psychological marks that were born in her childhood and that lasted throughout her life and work. She is a example of overcoming and channeling these problems
His father was a Hungarian photographer, and his mother was a part-indigenous woman. For her, that marked her because she said that she painted as if they were images from her father’s camera. She paints minimalist in her brush strokes, almost like photographs. Her relationship with her mother gave her conflicting feelings. These difficult relationships with her family, that internal pain of hers would mark her later.
At six years old, Frida Kalho spent nine months in bed for poliomyelitis This will leave him with an undeveloped leg. The children’s teasing was cruel, and he locked himself in an imaginary friend Without knowing it we would be talking about someone who is suffering from a bullying, but at that time it was neither known nor worked on. This will cause many consequences, as usually happens with similar situations.
But even so, in her adolescence she was considered a jovial girl and she found friends with whom to share her passion for Latin American literature.
Pain and loneliness
Again at the age of 18, an accident destroyed his hip, back and leg, requiring thirty operations to recover. Her parents did not know how to help her and were not by her side, only one of her three sisters accompanied her during the hospital months.
He hid his terrible pain from his family, but these would mark his later work. The fact of not being a mother because of the accident would add to her pain.
Here we see a person already marked by distance from his family, enduring unimaginable pain without saying anything to anyone. This pain, this loneliness and what today we would say would be something between depression and post-traumatic stress expressed itself in his work, full of strength and containment. This situation is emotionally very difficult to bear and although we try to give an appearance of normality, the pain is enormous.
psychological abuse
Kalho would marry Diego Rivera at the age of 22 in a relationship on the one hand full of complicity and on the other hand of infidelities and indifference between the two. Although they divorced, they would remarry, all without her lover, her sister, actually leaving the relationship. Despite that relationship, both her sister and her Diego were by her side until her death at the age of 47, as a result of a long illness.
Here we see the typical case of the abused woman who is unable to distance herself from the abuser even and know that he could at least end her mental health. In the same way accepts abuse by the family as normal, not just his sister. Nobody does anything in this sense to help her get out of it, again in a time when these issues are carried out privately and in silence.
Until the end
His life would be a long and painful search for a mental and physical cure that he would not achieve. His pain would be channeled into his art as a way of attempting healing.
His life example marks out self-improvement as a goal and the search for a cure as something that we should never stop trying. But in this case such a cure was not sought, but rather it was only channeled in his work, as a form of self-therapy, which, like a self-help book, can serve as a specific escape, but it will not help us if we do not try to go further. .
