Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico
City. At the age of 6, Frida contracted polio, which left her right foot crippled. Very sensitive about this deformity, and this would lead her to wear, at first, trousers and, later, long exotic skirts that would become one of her trademarks. In September of 1926. Returning home from school, she was caught in a terrible accident on the bus that she was riding. She suffered severe injuries and was confined to bed for many months. It was during this period that she took up the paintbrush, to distract herself from the pain and boredom of her condition. Her parents provided her with a mirror, so that she could serve as her own model, and this was how Kahlo began painting the self-portraits that would dominate her repertoire. In 1928 she got to know Diego Rivera, an established and esteemed painter, twenty one years her elder. One year later, they got married. For political reasons, Diego and Frida moved to the United States in 1930, where Frida got pregnant twice, in 1930 and 32. But the injuries Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress 1926 Self-Portrait 1929 TheBus 1929 Self-Portrait 1930 FridaDiego 1931 Luther Burbank 1931 My Birth 1932 Frida at Harry Ford Hospital 1932 On the Border Line Between Mexico and the USA 1932 My Dress Hangs There 1933 Frida – Family Tree 1936 Dedicated to Leon Trotsky 1937 Memory 1937 Fulang Chang and I 1937 The Deceased Dimas 1937 Girl With Death Mask 1937 My Nurse And I 1937 What The Water Gave Me 1938 Two Nudes in the Forest 1939 The Two Fridas 1939 Self Portrait Cropped Hair 1940 The Dream 1940 Self-Portrait 1940 Self-Portrait with Braid 1941 Self-Portrait 1942 TheBrokenColu mn 1944 FridaDiego 1944 Moses 1945 Without Hope 1945 The Wounded Deer 1946 Tree of Hope 1946 Self-Portrait 1947 Frida Kahlo & Diego at Alameda Park.1948 Diego & I 1949 The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth, Me, Diego & Mr Xolotl.1949 Roots Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Dr Farill 1951 Frida and Stalin 1954 CM