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Most people associate Frida Kahlo with her influential works of art, but little people know that she may have played a part in the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacan, Mexico in 1907. When she was young she had contracted polio, leaving one of her legs badly crippled. In 1925 she was involved in a dangerous bus accident leaving her with numerous injuries including a shattered pelvis, a broken spinal column, collarbone, and a few ribs. (Tibol 5) This left her in overwhelming pain physically and emotionally for the rest of her life. The bus accident destroyed her chances of having children, and she was a victim to a miscarriage out of wedlock. Constant grief fueled Frida as an artist. Therefore, she became one of the most popular artists of this past century.
When Kahlo was eighteen, she began to paint. Following her bus accident she was bedridden for almost a year and during that time she expressed her grave pain through art and poetry. She attended the......

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