"I paint myself because I am so often along and I am the subject I know best." - Frida Kahlo
http://fridapaintings.com/fullarticle.html
http://www.hovied.com/entertainment/2010/frida-kahlo-biography-with-video-06076661.html
Some of her beautiful and yet painful surrealistic works describing the pain she battled :
The above painting is a self portrait of Kahlo describing the depression and pain she battled while bedridden after a horrid car accident from which any movement would cause her pain; While bedridden for so long she took up painting and would productively let out her grief and sadness onto the canvas.
Diego and I
Diego and I, 1949, Oil on masonite,
11 5/8" x 8 13/16", Collection of Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Arts, New York.
She was his chicuita ("little one") and he was her "frog prince," but the path of love was not a smooth one for Frida and Diego. Almost from the moment of their marriage in 1929, there were problems. But 1949 was a particularly low point in their relationship. Rumors circulated that Diego intended to marry the film star Maria Felix, with whom he was having an affair. Although nothing came of the affair and Diego remained with Frida, she was hurt. The self-portrait Diego and I came out of this experience. (http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/worksofart/diegoandi.html)
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