Think you know everything about the famous Mexican painter? These facts will surprise you. Some even claimed the legend died of a self-induced overdose.
1. Frida's art was influenced by the indigenous Mexican culture, European Realism, Surrealism and Symbolism.
2. A vast majority of her work are actually self-portraits.
3. Kahlo was married to Diego Rivera. She considered him the greatest artist that ever lived.
4. Frida Kahlo was born in La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán, Mexico, the same house that now serves as a museum.
5. Kahlo was in a terrible accident that broke her spinal column, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, several fractures on her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. She was forced to stay in bed for months, it was then that her true passion for realism painting was born. It was her painting that helped her overcome depression.
6. Kahlo and her husband Rivera were known communists who housed Leon Trotsky after he fled Stalin's regine.
7. Her ashes are at La Casa Azul.
8. Diego Rivera accepted that Frida's death was 'the most tragic day of my life,' but that his love for her had been the 'most beautiful part of my life.'
9. Some have said that she died of a self-induced overdose.
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