Frida Kahlo listed by Live Science among the 10 influential women in history
25 March 2021
"While women's history has often been ignored or even erased over the centuries, many women have made huge impacts on society through activism, art, politics and leadership."
Live Science has included Frida Kahlo in the list of of the 10 most influential women in history, together with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Empress Dowager Cixi, Rosa Parks, Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou, Mary Wollstonecraft and Gertrude Stein.
"In 1922, she was among only 35 girls to enroll in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, where she became involved in the school's political and artistic circles. Her political awakening included a passion for Mexican identity, which would greatly influence her art. In her article "Aztec Imagery in Frida Kahlo's Paintings," published in 1990 in Woman's Art Journal, historian Janice Helland explained: "As [Kahlo] sought her own roots, she also voiced concern for her country as it struggled for an independent cultural identity. Her life and even her death were political."
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