Celebrated Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) is remembered for her vibrantly colorful self-portraits, passion, and pain. Kahlo created striking artworks that were a visual diary of a lifetime of physical and emotional pain as well as her turbulent marriage and life-long love affair with fellow artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo survived polio as a child and began painting in bed during a year-long convalescence after a bus accident at age 18. Over her lifetime, Kahlo suffered through 30 subsequent operations and a partial amputation of her right leg. She expressed much of her anguish through self-portraits that were inspired by the Mexican folk art she adored. Kahlo's legacy includes over 200 paintings, drawings, and sketches, plus, she was the first woman to sell a painting to the world-renowned Louvre Museum in Paris. The Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City was the artist's home and has Kahlo's personal belongings on display, as if she still lived there.
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