Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter. She was known for her surreal and very personal works. She was married to Diego Rivera, also a notable painter.
She was born at Coyoacán, Mexico. Because of a traffic accident at age 18 that left her crippled for life, Kahlo turned her attention from a medical career to painting. Drawing on her personal experiences, her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives of women. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are of herself. She was also influenced by native Mexican culture, shown in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married.
Kahlo's work is sometimes called "surrealist", and although she did art shows several times with European surrealists, she herself did not like that label. Her attention to female themes, and the honesty in her painting them, made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th century. Some of her work is seen at the Frida Kahlo Museum, found in her birthplace and home in suburban Mexico City.
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