Self-Portrait with a Monkey, a portrait made by the Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo in 1938, a French poet and founder Surrealism was visiting Mexico in the same year the portrait was release. The French poet and writer, Andre’ Breton who wrote the first, Surrealist Manifesto, according to the online article Latin American art(n.d.) “The French poet and founder of Surrealism, André Breton, after visiting Mexico in 1938, proclaimed it "the surrealist country par excellence."[7] Surrealism, an artistic movement originating in post-WWI Europe, strongly impacted the art of Latin America, where the mestizo culture, the legacy of European conquer over indigenous peoples, embodies contradiction, a central value of Surrealism. The widely known Mexican
