Disability as Power in the Works of Mary Duffy, Frida Kahlo, and Vassar Millar

Without your arm, what will you do to limit the lifespan of your wheelchair? If you do not control your body, what will you do? Today, many people in the world are in their lives. If "disabled people" succeed, they are generally considered to have given blows to overcome obstacles and prosperity of living. This is truly what they are doing.

Karlo, born of a German father and a mixed-mother, spent most of his life from childhood to adult at home in Coyoacan of La Casa Azur. She was disabled by polio when she was young. She is a promising student and went to the medical department before the 18-year-old traffic accident caused lifelong pain and medical problems. During recovery, she went back to childhood art taste and wanted to be an artist. Karlo's interest in politics and art led to the next stage of her life. In 1927, she joined the Mexican Communist Party who met the famous mural painter Diego Rivera she married in 1928. This relationship is very unstable, including divorce for a year, and both have affair. Karo traveled with Mexico and the American Rivera in the early 1920's and early 1930's.

Frida Kahlo, Full name Frieda Carr Ride Rivera, former Magdalena Carmen Frieda Karloy Calderon (born July 6, 1907, Coyoacan, Mexico, July 13, 1954, Coyoacan), a Mexican painter, a colorful self without compromise - It is known for portraits depicting identity, body, and death. She denied this relationship, but she is often accepted as a surrealist. In addition to her work, Karo is known for his intense relationship with mural painter Diego Rivera (married in 1929, divorced in 1939, remarried in 1940).

When Karo died in 1954, her work was familiar to a few people in Mexico and the United States. The biography (2) of Hayden Herrera 's publication Frida: Frida Kahlo in 1983 is probably the most widely read monograph of the American artist, probably the response to Kahlo' s life and art is overwhelming . In the review of Herrera's book, this is a mixture of strange historical research and popular best-selling romantic novels, where the heroine gained economic success and happiness after various sexual conquests. In American myths, despite the greatest pressure, individuals always win. This is contrary to the reality of most people. Through her personal will and effort, Herrera showed the victory of artists of life problems. (3)