Mujeres Revolucionarias

FRIDA KAHLO: (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and... Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera. Kahlo was noted for her exceptional beauty and unconventional appearance. Frida Freddy Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in her parents' house in Coyoacan, which at the time was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father was Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941), Frida's mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, was of primarily indigenous descent mixed with Spanish and a very devout Catholic. ELENA PONIATOWSKA: (born May 19, 1932, in Paris, France) is a Polish-Mexican journalist and author. Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Evremont Poniatowski Sperry and Paula Amor-Escandon. Her father was a Polish nobleman. Her mother was a Mexican citizen of mixed French ancestry. Poniatowska fled France with her mother from World War ll.The family settled in Mexico City. In 1949 Elena was sent to study in the United States. She returned to Mexico in 1953 and started her career as journalist working for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. She is best known for her 1971 work La noche de Tlatelolco, in which she relates her interviews with survivors and families of those who died in the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico City.Detailed info »« Brief info