Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is famous for her many self-portraits. She was involved in a bus accident at age 18 that caused lifelong pain and injuries. During her recovery, she began painting self-portraits that would become her signature genre. She married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1929. Throughout her life, Kahlo expressed her physical and emotional pain through her paintings of herself and her relationship with Rivera. She painted over 150 artworks in a variety of media until her death in 1954.

1. Frida Kahlo 1907 - 1954 Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City. At the age of 6, Frida contracted polio, which left her right foot crippled. Very sensitive about this deformity, and this would lead her to wear, at first, trousers and, later, long exotic skirts that would become one of her trademarks. In September of 1926. Returning home from school, she was caught in a terrible accident on the bus that she was riding. She suffered severe injuries and was confined to bed for many months. It was during this period that she took up the paintbrush, to distract herself from the pain and boredom of her condition. Her parents provided her with a mirror, so that she could serve as her own model, and this was how Kahlo began painting the self-portraits that would dominate her repertoire. In 1928 she got to know Diego Rivera, an established and esteemed painter, twenty one years her elder. One year later, they got married. For political reasons, Diego and Frida moved to the United States in 1930, where Frida got pregnant twice, in 1930 and 32. But the injuries she had suffered in the bus accidente in 1926, made it impossible for her to give birth. All these feelings of pain at this misfortune were expressed through her paintings.

3. Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress 1926

4. Roots

5. Self-Portrait 1929

6. TheBus 1929

7. Self-Portrait 1930

8. FridaDiego 1931

9. Luther Burbank 1931

10. Frida at Harry Ford Hospital 1932

11. My Birth 1932

12. On the Border Line Between Mexico and the USA 1932

13. My Dress Hangs There 1933

14. Frida – Family Tree 1936

15. Dedicated to Leon Trotsky 1937

16. Memory 1937

17. Fulang Chang and I 1937

18. The Deceased Dimas 1937

19. Girl With Death Mask 1937

20. My Nurse And I 1937

21. What The Water Gave Me 1938

22. Two Nudes in the Forest 1939

23. The Two Fridas 1939

24. Self Portrait Cropped Hair 1940

25. The Dream 1940

26. Self-Portrait 1940

27. Self-Portrait with Braid 1941

28. Self-Portrait 1942

29. TheBrokenColumn 1944

30. FridaDiego 1944

31. Moses 1945

32. Without Hope 1945

33. The Wounded Deer 1946

34. Tree of Hope 1946

35. Self-Portrait 1947

36. Frida Kahlo & Diego at Alameda Park 1948

37. Diego & I 1949

38. The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth, Me, Diego & Mr Xolotl 1949

39. Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Dr Farill 1951

40. Frida and Stalin 1954 CM