Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter (1907-1954) known for her self portraits that depict her inner turmoil.
Kahlo's inspiration comes from her life. She claims that she paints herself as she is the subject she knows best. In her youth she contracted and beat polio. She started her higher education with aspirations of becoming a doctor. Her physical pain started as a result of a traffic accident (being hit by a bus) while in med school in Mexico City.
She met Diego Rivera, an artist 20 years older than she was, while recovering. They had a stormy marriage. Kaho was noted as saying, "The streetcar accident left me crippled physically and Rivera crippled me emotionally". She and Diego Rivera were active in the Communist Party in Mexico and their artwork often reflected their political views.
She has been described as: "…one of history's grand divas…a tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, bi-sexual that hobbled about her bohemian barrio in lavish indigenous dress and threw festive dinner parties for the likes of Leon Trotsky, poet Pablo Neruda, Nelson Rockefeller, and her on-again, off-again husband, muralist Diego Rivera.
PBS Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Museum
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