For the third event I chose Frida Kahlo’s 1931 Frida and the Cesarean (unfinished) painting. This painting represents a specific complication after Frida’s bus accident. In the painting “The Broken Column” she paints herself in a surgical brace with nails throughout her body, and tears running down her face to represent the constant pain she had gone through that year and moving forward. That complication was not being able to get pregnant and have children. Since the iron hand rail punctured Frida’s abdomen and uterus that has caused her complications with not being able to conceive. This image allows the viewers to have a better understanding of how the accident caused long-term issues for Frida and her body.

Frida Kahlo Biography, www.fridakahlo.org/frida-kahlo-biography.jsp. Accessed 17 Mar. 2024.

“The Accident - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, artsandculture.google.com/usergallery/the-accident/tQIi_eBGGrS5IQ?hl=en. Accessed 1 Apr. 2024.