Period: 1 | Artist Biography.

Frida Kahlo;

• She was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan Mexico City, Mexico.
• She is one of Mexico's greatest artist.
• Her father was a German photographer.
• Around the age of 6, she contracted polio, which caused her to be bedridden for nine months.
• In 1922, Kahlo enrolled at the renowned National Preparatory School.
• She was influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, in which explained her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism.
• In 1929 she married Diego Rivera.
• Frida Kahlo then died on July 13, 1954.

Diego Rivera;

• Born in Guanajuato City, Guanajuato on December 8, 1886.
• He was a prominent Mexican painter.
• At the age of ten, he studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City.
• He was asked to continue his studied in Europe by the governor in the state of Veracruz.
• In 1913 to 1918, he had dedicated himself entirely to the cubist school of art.
• Rivera believed that his art work should be view not by only the people that could afford it but also by the people that could not afford it.
• In 1922, Rivera got married to Guadalupe Marin and later then in 1927 when he got home from Mexico his relationship with Guadalupe Marin ended.
  
• In 1928 he met Frida Kahlo and later in 1929 he got married again to Frida Kahlo.