3. Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She loved to paint self portraits. She was married to Diego Rivera who was also a painter. Diego Rivera was a muralist. They divorced and remarried. She had polio as a child and when she was a teenager she nearly died in a bus accident. In that accident she broke her spine, collarbone, ribs, foot, shattered her pelvis, and dislocated her shoulder. She had 30 operations and was in a body cast. After that tragic accident she began painting. Frida’s pain was depicted in her paintings. She died when she was only 47 years old. SU VIDA (HER LIFE)

4. SELF PORTRAIT WITH NECKLACE OF THORNS

5. THE TWO FRIDAS

6. THE WOUNDED DEER

7. VIVA LA VIDA

8. THE BROKEN COLUMN

9. ROOTS

10. “I never painted dreams.... I painted my own reality.…I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone... because I am the subject I know best. " "I've done my paintings well, not quickly but patiently, and they have a message of pain in them. “ "I am not sick…I am broken... but I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.... "....Frida Kahlo