The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of
the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin
American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work
was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one
of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman
of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven
than in almost any other artist’s case. Two events in her life were of
crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in
hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis.
It was in her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then, aged
twenty-one, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego
Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life
long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children.
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