Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter

Her life was marked by physical suffering, started with the polio contracted at the age of five and worsen by her life-dominating event occurred in 1925. A bus accident caused severe injuries to her body owing to a pole that pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. The medicine of her time tortured her body with surgical operations and corsets of different kinds .She transformed her suffering into transcendental art.An extraordinary, furious hope infuses her work, a belief in the birth of new life through death.Her works are inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.She had a great love, Diego Rivera,painter and muralist with whom she had a very tumultuous marriage.