You may not know everything about Frida Kahlo, but I guarantee you’d recognize her if you saw her depicted somewhere. Her iconic eyebrows, color palette and self-portraits are widely known now, but it was not always like this…
Some fun facts about Frida Kahlo you can use in your next family trivia game include:
– She started painting after an accident, before that she was studying to be a doctor.
– She is regarded as the master of self-portraits.
– The Louvre was the first internationally renowned museum to purchase one of her pieces.
– She was not very famous while she was alive, she was known as Diego Rivera’s wife and only became internationally known 20 years after her passing.
– Salma Hayek played her in a movie.
– She started painting after an accident, before that she was studying to be a doctor.
– She is regarded as the master of self-portraits.
– The Louvre was the first internationally renowned museum to purchase one of her pieces.
– She was not very famous while she was alive, she was known as Diego Rivera’s wife and only became internationally known 20 years after her passing.
– Salma Hayek played her in a movie.
She painted a total of 143 pieces, I’ll leave a couple of my favorites below! The watermelon one is called “Viva la Vida” and it was the last painting she ever made, just days before her death.
Have fun learning!
