The Horrors of Her Own Reality She died leaving a trail of inspiration behind her. She died peacefully, finally free from the pain she endured from her realities. Frida Kahlo’s death was speculated as a possible overdose of morphine, but doctors stated her official cause of death as a Pulmonary Embolism. Although many regarded the artist’s death as a tragic event, Kahlo was finally free from the depression that surrounded the entirety of her life. She left behind dozens of self-portraits, all reflecting the pain that occurred in her five decades of life. Over the course of these years, Kahlo experienced the worst pain any artist could receive. Her art mirrors this, and personal agony would make her one of the most influential female artists …show more content…
Regardless of how much Rivera was disliked, he continued to push the envelope with his massive murals. Eventually, the controversy would come to an end when Rivera and Kahlo moved back to Mexico because of a communist-sympathizing mural Rivera created. Kahlo was blamed viciously by her husband. He accused her of taking his happiness in his life away and sought to get revenge on her in the cruelest of all ways. Rivera lashed out with infidelity in the public eye. Kahlo’s close ties with her husband were snipped away by his callous greed. However, what was the final straw for Kahlo was when she discovered her husband was cheating on her with her own sister. After this discovery, she painted a man stabbing a woman’s body, cut off her long hair, and began dressing in a suit. The artist was devastated and lonely. She began isolating herself in her own depression, shutting out her sister’s apologies in the process. To Kahlo, she fell victim to a man who never sincerely loved her, and he abandoned her during her times in need. She a victim, who was betrayed by a woman she grew up with. Kahlo sought to fill the emptiness that she felt with alcohol because she knew she was worthless in the eyes of the people that mattered the most to her. Her marriage is what drowned out her hopes and dreams. Her marriage is what unraveled her into a broken artist. Kahlo would cease to retain the fractions of …show more content…
It was only necessary that she had to endure it because her outcome would make her the greatest female painter of the 20th century. Her world she depicted continued to give viewers a look of a life full of rejection, loneliness, pain, sorrow, detachment, and rejection. Kahlo was subject to a collection of events that would push someone to think about suicide, but she suffered through it and drew inspiration from it. She was the artist that coped with the greatest amount of pain. She was the artist was the unforgettable story, and she was the artist with the unibrow and