The life of beloved Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is as dramatic and extraordinary as any scripted television show—and soon it will be the plot of one,The artist’s estate is teaming up with Miami-based BTF Media to produce a television series based on the life and work of the artist. The goal is “to present a unique perspective based on what her family knows about her and show how she really lived her life,” the painter’s grandniece, Mara Romeo Kahlo, said.
The self-taught painter’s life was marked by physical and psychological pain, which she channeled into her searing self-portraits. She contracted polio as a child, and when she was an 18-year-old student, the bus she was riding collided with a trolley car, an incident that had lifelong repercussions. Kahlo’s internal injuries were so severe she was forced to recuperate in a full-body plaster cast, with painting her only respite from the brutal recovery process.
Kahlo’s marriage, divorce, and subsequent remarriage to fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera, as well as the two artists’ fervent political activism, helped cement the couple as iconoclasts. Frida, in particular, with her distinctive style and arresting features, has become an internationally beloved figure who has since inspired a line of
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