Alejandro gomez arias biography

In real life, Kahlo met the first love of her life, Arias, in 1922, at the National Prep School in Mexico City, one of Mexico's best schools.
This is a portrait of Frida's first boyfriend Alejandro Arias.
He received a number of government commissions and his business thrived until 1910 when the Mexican Revolution began and the government fell.

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Portrait of Alejandro Gómez Arias
(1928)

Oil on wood
61,5 x 41 cm.
24" x 16"
Private Collection
Mexico

This painting is a portrait of Frida's boyfriend Alejandro Arias. It is painted in a conventional portrait style similar to that of a photograph…a sharp contrast to the Renaissance style of her previous portraits.

The legend in the upper right corner of the painting reads: "Alex, with affection I painted your portrait, that he is one of my comrades forever, Frida Kahlo, 30 years later".

In 1922, Frida began classes at the National Prep School in Mexico City. There she met and fell in love with Alejandro Gómez Arias. For three years they were inseparable. Alex, as Frida called him, was with her on that rainy September afternoon in 1925 when the bus they were riding was struck by a trolley. Alejandro was not seriously injured and it was he who convinced the doctors at the Red Cross Hospital to attend to Frida after they had left her thinking she was too seriously injured to ever survive. Without his persistence Frida probably would have died.

While recovering from the acciden

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Portrait of Alejandro Gomez Arias - by Frida Kahlo

This is a portrait of Frida's first boyfriend Alejandro Arias. This painting was painted to a totally different style as a contrast to Renaissance style of her previous portraits. It was painted in the conventional portrait styles.

The note in the upper right corner of the painting Frida wrote: "Alex, with affection I painted your portrait, that he is one of my comrades forever, Frida Kahlo, 30 years later".

Frida met Alejandro Arias in year of 1922 when she started classes at the National Prep School in Mexico City. The young couple fell in love and were inseparable for the next three years. Alex, as Frida called him, was with her on that rainy September evening in 1925 when the bus they were riding was hit by a trolley. Alejandro just got some minor injuries. Frida was injured seriously and doctors at the Red Cross Hospital thought they wouldn't able to save her. Alejandro tried his best and convinced the doctors to attend to Frida. Without his persis

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Alejandro Gómez Arias Edit Profile

private secretary

Alejandro Gómez Arias, Private Secretary to Secretary of Public Education, Octavio Véjar Vázquez. President of the Student Federation of the Federal District, 1928; President of the National Student Federation, 1928-1929.

Background

Gómez Arias, Alejandro was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. Knew Miguel Alemán, president of Mexico, 1946-1952 and Salvador Novo, intellectual and historian, at National Autonomous University. Met Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico, 1958-1964, at night school.

Father a physician, Revolutionary and federal deputy, 1920. Boyfriend of Frida Kahlo, distinguished artist and wife of muralist Diego Rivera.

Education

Early education unknown. Preparatory studies at the National Preparatory School, 1926-1929. Law degree cum laude from the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1933, with a thesis on Hans Kelsen.

Professor at the National Preparatory School. Professor at National Autonomous University.

Career

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