Born on July 6, 1907, though her birth certificate says it was July 7 in Coyoacan, Mexico, near Mexico City, Frida's life hasn't been the most perfect. For instance, she was teased constantly at her Catholic school, for her father was German Jewish of Hungarian origin, when she was only eight. At the age of six she had the disease polio and to make things worse, while a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School on September 17,1925, she endured severe injuries in a bus accident. She was likely to die, but was determined to live. During her recovery of her near death situation, Kahlo taught herself to paint. After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who encouraged her to continue her work. Kahlo and Rivera fell in love, despite their size differences (Diego was very large and Frida was a little over five feet), they married in 1929.

Influenced by Rivera's work, Kahlo adopted his use of broad, simplified color areas and a deliberately nai

Kahlo had three exhibitions during her lifetime. The exhibitions in New York City in 1938 and in Paris in 1939 were organized through her contact with the French surrealist poet and storyteller Andre Breton. In 1953 she had her first exhibition in Mexico, at a gallery in Mexico City. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait was published in 1995. Her home in Coyoacan is now the Frida Kahlo Museum.

Kahlo primarily depicted her personal experience. She frequently focused on the painful aspects of her life, using graphic imagery to convey

her meaning. The uneasiness of her marriage is shown in the weeping and physically injured self-portraits she painted when she felt rejected by Rivera.

In less than four decades the first modern art "isms"--Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism--followed one another at breakneck speed.

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