“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
Through her paintings, Kahlo explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
After an accident that almost killed her, she used her recovery time to paint, rediscovering a childhood love of art.
She is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work has gone on to inspire political and cultural movements alike.
