Frida Kahlo, born on this day in 1907, was a Mexican artist and communist known for her folk-art inspired style paintings, touching on themes on gender, race, class, self-perception, indigenous culture, and chronic pain.

At the age of eighteen, Frida Kahlo suffered a very serious accident that forced her to a long convalescence, during which she learned to paint, and which in all probability influenced the formation of the complex psychological world that is reflected in her works. In 1929 she married the muralist Diego Rivera; Three years later, she suffered an abortion that deeply affected her delicate sensitivity and inspired two of her most valued works: Henry Ford Hospital and Frida and Abortion, whose complex symbolism is known from her own explanations.

Her self-portraits, also of complex interpretation, are highly appreciated: Autoretrato con monos or Las dos Fridas. When André Breton learned about Frida Kahlo's work, he affirmed that the Mexican was a spontaneous surrealist and invited her to exhibit in New York and Paris, the latter city in which she did not have a great reception. Frida never felt close to surrealism, and at the end of her days she openly rejected that her artistic creation was framed in that trend.

In her search for the aesthetic roots of Mexico, a trait she shared with Diego Rivera and the muralists (David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco), Frida Kahlo made splendid portraits of children and works inspired by Mexican iconography before the conquest, but they are the fabrics that focus on herself and her eventful life, which have made her a leading figure in twentieth-century Mexican painting.

In 1943, Kahlo accepted a teaching position at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, the "La Esmeralda." She encouraged her students to treat her in an informal and non-hierarchical way and taught them to appreciate Mexican popular culture and folk art, and to derive their subjects from the street.

Frida Kahlo was a member of the Mexican Communist Party and committed to radical anti-capitalism throughout her entire adult life.

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