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Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

Who knows the work of Frida Kahlo knows that, much of the talent that I capture in her, came out of her own pain.Passionate as few, the Mexican artist put heart, guts and soul in each one of her creations.However, there were three decisive moments for her: the three children she lost throughout her life.For this reason, and because of the relevance of these events, today we repair Frida Kahlo and motherhood : abortions and art .

When Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera became husband and wife, it was summer 1929 and the United States was ravaged by biggest crisis in its history.At that time, the Mexican was 22 years old while Diego Rivera almost doubled his age, 42.Not a year later did they find the fortune of fertilization and Frida Kahlo became pregnant just start 1930.

Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

Unfortunately for the couple, the fetus was not viable and was in an impossible position for extraction at the time.The painful result was a therapeutic abortion and the first Reves to the Mexican as a mother, without even having become one.

Fateful accident

And that is, one of the problems I had the artist, to give birth, was given by the bus accident that she had suffered in 1925.A tram took the bus she was traveling on, disintegrating it completely and leaving it crushed against a wall.The medical part could not be more bleak : a fractured spine with three parts, two broken ribs, a fractured clavicle and three pelvic floor bones burst.

There was nothing left there.right leg became anicos, breaking into 11 parts; his right foot was dislocated; He left his left shoulder and a bar crossed his left hip, coming out of his vagina.After more than 30 operations and years of therapy , Frida Kahlo was able to leave an ordeal of hospitals and therapies., the doctors assured him that it would be impossible for him to have children after such an accident.Unfortunately, at the first exchange, they were right.

Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

After the abortion blow, the marriage moved to San Francisco (USA), where Diego Rivera would paint several murals in the city ​​stock exchange building, a building followed by many other publics, which kept the couple four years in the city.Alli, Frida Kahlo coincided with Leo Eloesser, a eminence in the surgery , and that he would become a great friend of the artist.To such an extent, that Frida Kahlo entrusted all her s issues of health.Customed that he kept until his death.

At that time, the United States was immersed in full Dry Law , so The incredible tricks that were used during the Dry Law, they will leave you with their mouths open.Although most of them were caught.

New York

The logical passage of marriage seemed clear: New York And so it was.A retrospective of Diego Rivera's work, I take them to The Big Apple, where they were only part of 1931.And the following year, the Detroit Institute of Arts claimed painter to order a mural.Alli, Frida Kahlo became pregnant again, and Dr.Eloesser recommended a well-known gynecologist, who convinced Frida to take her pregnancy to an end .

Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

The problem? the risks that this entailed for her and for the fetus.Despite the complications, the Mexican was radiant at the idea of ​​early motherhood.It could not be.A spontaneous boarding, the American Independence Day (July 4) of 1932 , a miscarriage left her without a baby for the second time in two years.To finish off, that summer in September, her mother would die during a gallbladder operation.

After several months in disgust in New York, Frida Kahlo wanted to return to Mexico and they did so.It was in December 1933, and after overcoming several stages of Daily and unnecessary fights.

Finally, Mexico

Upon arrival in Mexico, in search of tranquility, relaxation and the long-awaited baby, they settled in SanAngel.The area was not, by far, one of the most popular in Mexico City.Moreover, this suburb was highly dangerous when the sun went down.Frida did not care.I retrieve her muse, paint again and recover the time lost in the USA, starting one of its most prolific times.

Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

But again, 1934 arrived, and with it the curse of Frida Kahlo's even years..Again, I became pregnant with Diego Ribera and again the pregnancy became very complicated.I have no choice but to perform a third abortion that left her bedridden for days in the hospital.The worst of all is that a few months later, she had complications in her right foot and the doctors amputated on four fingers of the same.One year to forget, no doubt.

Faced with such a series of unfortunate catastrophes and knowing the direct and clear character of Frida Kahlo, nobody missed her words.« The painting has filled my life.I have lost three children and another series of things that could have filled my horrible life.Painting has replaced everything.I think there is nothing better than work ".Meridian.

The three abortions suffered in five years, made him give up his maternal desire and focus on painting.These raw experiences, this first-person experience and this continued suffering, made Frida Kahlo the artist we know and admire. More than 200 works , in its great majority self-portraits.And in its great majority, faithful reflection of his unconventional life and his own suffering.

Frida Kahlo and motherhood: abortions and art

The climax to her painful life l or I leave reflected in the last sentence that he wrote down in his diary: « I look forward to the departure and I hope never to return «.All a declaration of intentions for whom life was the opposite of a path of roses.

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