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Frida Kahlo MBTI Personality Type

Frida Kahlo MBTI Personality Type

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Frida Kahlo Personality Type

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What personality type is Frida Kahlo? Frida Kahlo is an ISFP personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sx/sp - 468 in Enneagram, SLUEI in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.

I think she could be seen as an INFP typed by letters, especially for her highly eccentric and somewhat idealistic personality, but looking closer into her biography and works she seems more like a Se/Ni user. Her paintings are highly realistic and focused on aesthetic composition and reflect scenes of nature and self portraits. They can have a certain symbolism to them, but less abstract and more direct than that of a secondary Ne user. They are clear to notice and add to aesthetics of the pictures. Her political activism seems also to come from her Ni. While she was somewhat idealistic she was torn towards one single cause, the Mexican revolution and highly invested in it. Her activism was passionately and quite physical, shown in an openly rebellious and eccentric attitude as well. Frida was also known to be highly impulsive and adventurous, as well as quick to react and physical. She was grounded and in the world, even though she certainly was eccentric. At times she struggled with living to much in the moment and ignoring the long term consequences of some of her actions, but she also developed a healthy and quite strong tertiary Ni, which helped her to create not just aesthetically pleasing but quite symbolic and meaningful paintings. She was a very interesting ISFP for sure, since her tertiary Ni was unusually developed, but still her Se was clearly stronger. I understand why someone could see her, as an INFP based on surface observations, but looking closer into her personality ISFP makes more sense to me for now.

Biography

Frida Kahlo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.