General facts about Frida Kahlo

• Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán. At the time, it was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City.
• Real name: Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón.
• Kahlo was a Mexican painter perhaps best known for her self-portraits.
• Parents: Guillermo (Wilhelm) Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y González.
• Kahlo had a stormy but passionate marriage with the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera.
• Height: 1.60 m (5' 3")
• Date of Birth July 6, 1907
• Frida Kahlo was born in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán.
• Zodiac Sign: Cancer.
• Frida contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg thinner than the left.
• Frida Kahlo was terribly injured in a freak accident in 1925, when she was just 18.
• She underwent as many as thirty-five operations as a result of the accident, mainly on her back, her right leg and her right foot.
• Died July 14, 1954 (Aged 47)
• Cause of Death: pulmonary embolism.

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Fernando Botero facts

• Fernando Botero was born on April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia.
• Parents: David Botero and Flora Angulo.
• Botero calls himself  "the most Colombian of Colombian artists".
• Fernando Botero one of the most celebrated contemporary Latin American artists.
• His paintings and sculptures are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or "fat" figures, as he once referred to them.
• The Colombian artist lived in Mexico (1956—-1957) and New York City (1960-19—73) before moving (1973) to Paris, where he usually resides.
• In 1964 Botero began living with Cecilia Zambrano. They had a son Pedro, born in 1974, and separated in 1975. Pedro was killed in 1979 in a car accident, in which Botero was also injured.

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