As soon as Kahlo was completely recovered, she found Diego Rivera, a very popular Mexican artist at the time. She showed him her work to be critiqued, because she wanted to know if her work was good enough to live off of. Rivera approved of her paintings and took her under his wing.
Their relationship eventually turned to a marriage. Kahlo followed Rivera around America because he was such a popular muralist, which influenced and impacted her art work a lot. Some other big influences in her art work involve her bad health, difficult marriage, politics, and religion. Frida reached many milestones in her career as a Mexican artist such as being the first Mexican artist from the 20th Century to be exhibited in The Louvre in 1939. This is a very outstanding event in her career due to the fact that only a year earlier, she sold her first real piece of artwork at $200 to Edward G. Robinson. |