Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter whose life became inseparable from her art. A devastating bus accident at eighteen left her with lifelong pain and medical complications, transforming her from a medical student into an artist who painted primarily self-portraits. She married muralist Diego Rivera in 1929, and their turbulent relationship—marked by mutual infidelities, divorce, and remarriage—fueled much of her work. Kahlo drew from Mexican folk art, Indigenous mythology, and Catholi