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Emma Molloy
ENGL 2
Prof. Adams
8 September 2017
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was an exemplary Mexican painter during the early 20th century. She
experienced a great deal of tragedy in life and expressed this through her art. Frida’s style
was surrealist, but she also embodied characteristics of Irving Howe’s “The Culture of
Modernism.” Kahlo fit into this definition because she did not intend to “remake the world,”
instead she declared, “I painted my own reality” (Howe 4; qtd. in Morrison 11). Kahlo’s
identity not only influenced her work, it defined it. She depicted her various illnesses’ in
order to blatantly address the subject of her own death and to inspire a revolution from
