This gallery is focused on paintings by Frida Kahlo after her bus accident. On September 17, 1925 Frida was riding a bus with her boyfriend, Gomez Arias, when it crashed into a trolley. As a result, Frida had a broken spinal column, collar bone, ribs, pelvis,11 fractures in her leg, and an iron hand rail punctured her abdomen and uterus. When her boyfriend found her after the accident gold dust was spilt all over her naked bleeding body. She spent three months recovering in a full body cast, though she recovered her ability to walk again it affected the rest of her life and we see that in many of her famous paintings.
Shown is a group of people of different classes of society sitting on a bus. This painting is referring to before the bus accident, a man sits with a bag of gold dust that split on Frida's body.
Appearances Can Be Deceiving, Frida Kahlo, 1934, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
Frida shows her naked body with her broken spinal cord and butterflies on her legs from the bus accident, under a beautiful dress so no one sees them.
Frida painted this shorty after she had surgery on her spinal column and left her in a metal corset that kept her back from collapsing and left her in constant pain, which the nails in her body show.
Corset, Frida Kahlo, 0, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
This is the corset Frida had to wear after her spinal column surgery. She took up painting after the accident and painted her corset, her spine and several other things are shown on it.
Frida and the Cesarean (unfinished), Frida Kahlo, 1931, From the collection of: Museo Frida Kahlo
In this unfinished painting Frida shows one of the elements she used a lot, pregnancy. After the accident Frida was no longer able to have children because of the rail that went through he uterus.
Frida had three miscarriages in her life and this painting is her showing it. She says "nothing seemed more normal to me than to paint what I had not achieved".
Frida had a miscarriage and was told to stay on bed rest, later she was brought to Henry Ford Hospital where she was given an abortion.
Frida being obsessed with fertility she painted this flower of life, she had a few miscarriages but was never able to have a baby.
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