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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other considerations" Frida Kahlo

This statement cannot begin define the artist know as Frida but it is a fitting description. Just as it is not easy to describe the beauty of a rose, the softness of its petals, the sweetness of its aroma or the sharpness of it's thorns, it is difficult to fully describe any woman but Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon is an enigma.

Born into colonial Mexico on July 6, 1907, she always listed her birth year as 1910, not for vanity's sake but because that year was the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and the overthrow of Presidente Porfirio Diaz. Frida was born of revolution and great change. Born to Wilhelm Kahlo, a Jewish Hungarian native to Baden-Baden, Germany who immigrated to Mexico as a teenager and after a brief first marriage was then married to Catholic Mexican Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez. Frida was one of four......

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