Frida Kahlo Art Doll

I have been involved in a momiji message doll swap with the 3D Yahoo group. Today I got my momiji from Brenda! This image below is what I saw when I opened the envelope, yes envelope...and it didn't break! It was the back of the doll. Very pretty. Scroll down and you will see what I then saw when I turned her around.....

It's Frida Kahlo!

I knew right away! Isn't she gorgeous! I just love her! There is a lot of detail on her, from the texture on her shawl, to the flowers in her hair and more. At first I could not find the message. I looked and looked and then I found it...right behind the heart that she is holding.

It reads..."Why do I need feet, when I have wings to fly" Frida Kahlo 1954

I will be adding this quote to my journal of quotes. I love it. Thank you Brenda!

If you have not heard much about Frida Kahlo you should read more. She is very interesting. She had polio and spina bifida as a child and was in a very bad bus accident that crushed and broke most of her body and which left her in lots of pain most of her life. She was bedridden off and on but amazingly enough she was able to walk again at times. She was married to Diego Riviera, the artist.

Frida Kahlo celebrated her unique beauty. She dressed in traditional Mexican costumes and wore ribbons and flowers in her long dark braids. Many women would want to change their hairy eyebrows, but not Frida! She took the time to add the details that made her distinctive in each of her paintings.
Frida liked to paint her eyebrows like the wings of a bird!

She did many self portraits because she was alone and she was the only person she saw most of the time. She painted her reality, she once said. It was only after her death that her paintings really became famous.