Kahlo’s bed provided refuge when she was ill and served as the site of many gatherings with family and friends at the Blue House. Throughout her life, she continued to suffer from poor health, causing her to spend extended periods of time in bed. It was in her bed that Kahlo began her career as an artist, creating many of her early works with the help of a custom easel given to her by her parents. Then at the age of eighteen, Kahlo was seriously injured in a bus accident that confined her to a bed yet again. As a child, Kahlo contracted polio, leaving her bedridden for nine months.
There is perhaps no space that played a larger role in Frida Kahlo’s life and develop-ment than her bed. The steel rod entered through her hip and came out through her pelvis. Kahlo’s spinal column was broken in three places from the accident her pelvis was fractured, her collarbone, two ribs, and her right leg and foot were all broken. When the ambulance arrived at the scene the medics declared that Kahlo had no hope, and that they needed to tend to other survivors, but Gómez Arias pleaded that they take her with them to the hospital. A worker standing close to the scene of the accident extracted the rod from Kahlo’s body, and Gómez Arias carried her out of the street and placed his coat on top of her. Miraculously, Gómez Arias was able to pull himself up after the collision, but when he went to help Kahlo, he realized that a metal rod had pierced her body. Alejandro Gómez Arias, Kahlo’s boyfriend at the time and fellow Cachucha, was on the bus with Kahlo when the accident occurred. On SeptemFrida Kahlo was on her way home from school when the bus she was riding was struck by a tram, causing her severe injuries that would affect her for life. In fact, Rivera would later tell a story of the young Kahlo coming to watch him paint. Kahlo and her friends took up an interest in this larger-than-life figure working at their school. Rivera was one of several artists hired by the department of education to create murals in schools and public buildings to teach the principles of the revolution to the people of Mexico. She describes this period of her life at school as one of the happiest.Īs a student Kahlo came across the famed muralist and painter Diego Rivera. Kahlo fell in love with one of the leading members of the group, Alejandro Gómez Arias, and he became her first boyfriend. During this time, she befriended a sharp-witted, and at times rambunctious, group of students referred to as Los Cachuchas, or the peaked caps.
The school, located in the heart of Mexico City, was a center of intellectual thought and culture in post-revolutionary Mexico. In 1922 at the age of 15, Kahlo enrolled at the prestigious National Preparatory School where she was one of only 35 female students.
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