General personal background: Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City. She gave her birth date as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. At the age of 18, she was involved in a serious bus accident which left her with a broken spinal column, a broken collar bone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and 11 fractures in her right leg. She began painting shortly after the accident because she was bored in bed. She turned to alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes to ease the pain. Diego and Frida were married on August 21, 1929. Frida had to have her right leg amputated below the knee due to a gangrene infection. This made her suicidal. On July 13, 1954, Frida died. The reason for her death is unknown but suicide is rumored.
             Location: Mexico City (early 1900's to mid-1900's)
             Schools, styles, periods: Modern or postmodern. Works consists of fragments of bodies spread everywhere; National Preparatory School.
             Major influences upon artist: Her anger and hurt over her marriage, the painful miscarriages, and the physical suffering she underwent because of her accident influenced her paintings.
             Who the artist influenced: Frida influenced people all over the world. In America, people lover her beauty and work. She had many admirers in Mexico.
             Major works by title: The Two Fridas (1939) , Me and My Parrots (1941) The Frame (1938)
             ~ At age 6, Frida was stricken with Polio, which caused her right leg to appear thinner than the other.
             ~ Frida was a bisexual and had affairs with many women.
             ~Her works were painted in bed. Because of her physical conditions, she was never able to have any kids.
             ~ Frida is obsessed with self portraits.
             ~Frida only had one exhibition in Mexico and it was in the spring of 1953.
             The Two Fridas. In the center of the painting, it easy to recall twins holding hands. One figure is wearing a wedding dress, where as the other is d
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