Explore the life of celebrated artist Frida Kahlo in a three-part docuseries. See the major personal and political events of her life, including her stormy and devoted relationship with artist Diego Rivera, whom she married not once but twice.
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Explore the life of celebrated artist Frida Kahlo in a three-part docuseries. See the major personal and political events of her life, including her stormy and devoted relationship with artist Diego Rivera, whom she married not once but twice.
More About the Episodes
Episode 1 | The Making and Breaking
Explore the early life of Frida Kahlo as she discovers her genius for painting following a tragic, life-changing accident, leading her to encounter world-famous muralist Diego Rivera who she later marries, twice.
Episode 2 | Love and Loss
Follow Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s journey to America as they achieve celebrity, and Frida experiences tragic losses with the death of her mother and a miscarriage, inspiring her to create some of her most powerful and iconic paintings.
Episode 3 | A Star Is Born
Explore Frida Kahlo’s life including her affair with Leon Trotsky, her trip to Paris on the eve of WWII with surrealist pioneer Andre Breton, and her return to Mexico where she divorces and then remarries husband Diego Rivera before her death.
A 12-year-old Frida Kahlo, June 15, 1919.
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Credit: Cristina Kahlo / Alamy
Frida Kahlo, pictured in 1926.
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Credit: Guillermo Kahlo Cristina Kahlo
Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and other intellectuals march on Labor Day in Mexico, May 1, 1929.
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Credit: Secretaría de Cultura / INAH
Wedding portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, August 21, 1929.
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Credit: Victor Reyes
Frida Kahlo pictured with a crystal sphere in 1938, Coyoacán, Mexico.
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Credit: Manuel Álvarez Bravo Archive
Diego Rivera works on “Allegory of California,” his first American mural commission, in 1931, San Francisco Stock Exchange Luncheon Club.
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Credit: Emmy Lou Packard / Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Frida Kahlo pictured with her oil painting “The Two Fridas” in 1939.
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Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images
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