Becoming Frida Kahlo

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A look into Frida Kahlo's world, an artist driven by politics, power, sex and identity.

A look into Frida Kahlo's world, revealing an artist driven by politics, power, sex and identity, with her epic love affair with Diego Rivera at the heart of it all.

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Becoming Frida Kahlo: Series 1: The Making and Breaking

The Making and Breaking

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When an accident changes Frida's life, she channels pain and heartache into painting.

When an accident changes Frida's life, she channels pain and heartache into a new passion: painting. She meets Diego Rivera and her creative and romantic dreams begin to take shape.

Biographer Martha Zamora describes Frida's rebellious schooldays, where she falls in with the boys and meets Diego Rivera, a superstar artist who will go on to change her life.

But in 1925, a tragic accident thwarts Frida's ambition of becoming a doctor. Left facing a life of pain and injury, she channels this pain and uses it as the catalyst for her artistic career.

Becoming Frida Kahlo: Series 1

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