"Pies, para qué los quiero si puedo volar"

Well, I'm going to write about one of my favourite painters. 

She is Frida Kahlo. 

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1907. When she was 18 she had an accident in a bus transport. It was a very important event because it influenced her to do amazing paintings with a significant meanings. She met famous people about arts and politics like André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marcel Duchamp, etc. Even the  Kahlo story says that she had an affair with a very important russian politician: León Trotsky. She stayed in the muralist world of that time all her life. That's why she knew Diego Rivera and married with him. Also, many of the rumors say that she was bisexual. No one of this information has been refused. 

I knew her in a big exhibition that came to Chile. I got there when I was in the highschool for an art class. I couldn't understand her in that moment because I didn't know the meanings of her paintings. In fact I was boring all the time in that place.

But the last week I watched a movie about her and her life. It was Frida (2002), from Julie Taymor. In this film Frida was played by Salma Hayek. I can understand now what's about this painter at the last.

Well, from this movie and the exhibition I love one of her paintings: Las dos Fridas (1939). I think this image (and all her work) has a strong and painful meaning. It has a big connection with all her life in fact.