Frida Kahlo had poor health. She contracted polio at the age of 6 and had to be bedridden for nine months. This disease caused her right leg and foot to grow much thinner than her left one. She limped after she recovered from polio. She had been wearing long skirts to cover that for the rest of her life. Her father encouraged her to do lots of sports to help her recover. She had kept a very close relationship with her father for her whole life. Her health condition had been worsening in 1950. She became bedridden for the next nine month and had to stay in hospital and had several surgeries. But with great persistence, Frida Kahlo continued to work and paint.

Frida Kahlo attended the renowned National Preparatory School in Mexico City in the year of 1922. There are only thirty-five female students enrolled in that school and she soon became famous for her outspokenness and bravery. At this school she first met the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera for the first time. In the same year, Kahlo joined a gang of students who shared similar political and intellectual views. She fell in love with the leader Alejandro Gomez Arias. On a September afternoon when she traveled with Gomez Arias on a bus the tragic accident happened. Frida Kahlo was seriously injured. The accident left her in a great deal of pain, both physically and physiologically. She had to wear full-body cast for three months. To kill the time and alleviate the pain, she started painting and finished her first self-portrait the following year.

Frida Κahlo and Diego Rivera got married twice. She asked him to evaluate her work and he encouraged her. Kahlo and Rivera had been separated a few times but they always went back together. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's marriage is not a usual one. They had been keeping separate homes and studios for all those years.

Ø  In 1932, Kahlo added more realistic and surrealistic components in her painting style. Frida said she never considered herself as a Surrealist “until André Breton came to Mexico and told me I was one”. She also wrote, “Really I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not”. In 1938, she had an exhibition at New York City gallery. She sold some of her paintings and got two commissions. The next year, Kahlo was invited by Andre Breton and went to Paris. Her works were exhibited. In the year of 1953, she had a solo exhibition in Mexico.

About one week after her 47th birthday, Frida Kahlo passed away at her beloved Blue House, her family’s home.

·         This table is a symbol of Frida's sense of broken family from the divorce.

·         The painting was displayed in the "International Exhibition of Surrealism".

·         In the painting Frida herself is surrounded by all the objects which accompany her.

·         On one side one can see her sister Cristina's two children, which is a reflection of her desire to have her own children.

Frida started working on this painting as an expression of her despair and loneliness. The blood is dripping in the Wounded Table, 1940 as it was dripping on Frida's Tehuana skirt in The Two Frida’s .
In this painting, the table has human legs and its surface is bleeding on the few knots. This table is a symbol of Frida's sense of broken family from the divorce. There are several objects around the table. In the center was Frida herself, surrounded by all the objects who accompanies her. On one side is her sister Cristina's two children, which is a reflection of her desire to have her own children. On the other side is a deer, one of her favorite pets and she uses them as her surrogate children. Sitting right next to her is a Nayarit figure. The tall Judas figure is considered as Diego Rivera, who plays the role of the betrayal. Frida elongated the arm of the idol that sits on her left. And, perhaps to emphasize her link with pre-Columbian culture, she made the idol's arm continuous with her own. The clay skeleton, with its pelvic bone tied to a chair to keep it upright, lifts a lock of her long hair in the coiled spring that forms his forearm. He seems intimately linked with Frida, as well." 
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 Her last and one of her most famous quotes. This quote expresses the sadness and trauma of her life, she doesn't beg for her life to be longer nor does she care that she hadn't had a great life; she just wants to move on hoping there was something better in store for her in the afterlife.

 

  This quote, written by Frida Kahlo, embraces the idea of her paintings being her escape from the harsh reality. They give her motivation to continue fighting, and instead of walking she flies with her imaginary wings reflecting that her life is in her own hands.

  Out of all her quotes this one is the most tragic as it reveals the meanings of all her paintings that were driven by negative emotions. In other words, saying that her own life is depicted in those paintings, and the surreality of them doesn't have to do with dark thoughts but rather her sad but inspirational life.