I have visited a number of Frida Kahlo exhibits over the years with the most recent being the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Frida: Beyond the Myth. One of the highlights of this exhibition was the display of a timeline highlighting the various periods of the artist's life.
I was able to use this construct to develop trees of the artist's work by period, using images captured during visits to said Virginia Museum, Frist Art Museum (Mexican Modernism), Brooklyn Museum (Frida Kahlo: Appearances can be Deceiving); and National Museum of Women in the Arts (Collection). Those trees are displayed in the charts below.
- A significant percentage of the paintings are portraits (13 of 31)
- There are many more drawings in the early portion of her career than later
- There is great consistency in depiction of her facial features in the portraits
- The first still life observed was Magnolias in 1945. She folllowed with a number of substantive works in that genre in later years
- The 1930s and 40s were her most productive years
- Surrealists wanted to claim her as their own and The Love Embrace of the Universe ..., provides ample evidence as to why.
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