Kahlo’s pictures express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera’s occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct. All her life she had problems with their health. Many of her health problems were caused by traffic an accident, which has survived as a teenager. When she was younger she painted about bright and colorful things, but eventually, her personal experience, as was her marriage, her abortions and the number of operations, and their united signs of pain are often characterized by its work. She had a strong personality, physically disabled, but full of energy, artistic power, life force, uncompromising posture. Frida Kahlo translated pain into art like no other artist. From the day of the accident until the day of her death she had thirty-two operations. Her unique, …show more content…
Her accident at 18 leaves her with permanent scars and pains that pledged her for the rest of her life, but this disability continued to ignite her passion for life and painting. She once said that she was not a surrealist as she never painted dreams but her own reality. It was fascinating to learn the details of her life, from her childhood accident to her marriage to Diego Rivera, thru pictures. She was an amazing artist who endured a lot of pain but kept making art and, when she was well, liked to cook and entertain, go to parties, etc. She painted herself from different periods and emotional states which have