Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo Her life "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego." Frida Kahlo was born on July 7 1907, in the city of Mexico. However, she claimed that she was born in 1910, the year of the Mexican Revolution because she liked to think that her life began at the same time as modern Mexico. In fact, there are many anecdotes or lies like …

…ere is also a new book which came out last week (November 13) about her life called "Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo" by Carole Maso. As we can see, even if she died more than fifty years ago, her spirit didn't. She is still inspiring a lot of us and painters are trying to imitate her. She was a great woman who taught us to paint with the heart, not with the hands!