Frida Kahlo was a courageous and brave woman. Though she had been through numerous pains and suffering, she has continued to do what she loved to do, which was paint.
             Born on July 6, 1907, though her birth certificate says it was July 7 in Coyoacán, 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 naive, somewhat adolescent, style in her paintings, which was very popular in the Mexican Arts. Like Rivera, she wanted her paintings to maintain her Mexican identity, and she frequently used technical devices and subject matter from Mexican archaeology and folk art. The impact of her work is enhanced by techniques such as the inclusion of fantastic and bizarre elements, a free use of space, and the relationship of unusual objects.
             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.
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