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Frida Kahlo

Mexican artist celebrated for her autobiographical and surrealist paintings.

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Known for: Mexican painter renowned for self-portraits and works exploring identity, gender, and Mexican culture.

About Frida Kahlo

Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. Her 1940 self-portrait titled The Dream (The Bed) holds the record for the most expensive work by a female artist ever auctioned, at $54.7 million. Although she contracted polio in 1913, which left her disabled, Kahlo had been a promising student headed for medical school until being injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. During her recovery, she returned to her childhood interest in art with the idea of becoming an artist. Around the same time, she approached artist Diego Rivera, whom she had encountered several years prior when he was painting a mural in her school auditorium, to ask for his opinion whether she should pursue a career as a painter or find another means to support herself. According to Rivera, the two began their "courtship in earnest" shortly after this encounter. Kahlo's interests in politics and art led her to join the Mexican Communist Party in 1927, through which she once again met fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera, according to Zelazko.

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