Frida was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.

On September 17, 1925, Kahlo and her boyfriend were on their way home from school when the wooden bus they were riding collided with a streetcar. Kahlo suffered near fatal injuries. An iron handrail impaled her through her pelvis, fracturing the pelvic bone. During the three months in which she was forced to stay bedridden, she made several paintings and decided to become an artist.

Kahlo created 55 self-portraits. "I paint myself," she said, "because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in a building nicknamed "La Casa Azul" for its vivid blue exterior. She died in the same building at age 47.

In 1953, Photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo staged Frida's first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Galería Arte Contemporaneo. Doctors had put Frida on bed rest, but she ordered her four-poster bed moved from her home to the gallery and made an incredible entrance, pulling up to the exhibition in an ambulance.

Kahlo created a painting titled Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky to commemorate her brief affair.

When Kahlo was six years old she contracted polio, which made her right leg shorter and thinner than the left. She hid this through her life by wearing long colorful skirts.

Mexicayotl ("Essence of the Mexican" or "Mexicanity") is a movement reviving the indigenous religion, philosophy and traditions of ancient Mexico (Aztec religion and Aztec philosophy) among the Mexican people.

In 1990, she became the first Latin American artist to break the one-million-dollar threshold when Diego and I was auctioned by Sotheby's for $1,430,000.

In this painting, Frida depicted a young deer with her own face. The animal had been fatally wounded by a bunch of arrows.