Frida, Frida

Frida Kahlo is probably the most famous female artist in the world, right? There are thousand ways to admire her. For some people, she's a symbol of Mexican feminism, others love her frankness of expressing herself.

For me, Frida is an excelent example of facing the pain and the difficulties in life. She became a painter after a near fatal accident. The more I learned about her life, the more incredible Frida became in my eyes. Frida Kahlo was a courageous and brave woman. Though she had been through numerous pains and suffering, she has continued to do what she loved to do, which was paint. She was always exploring herself and who she was in the world. Her identity as a woman and as Mexican is undeniable in her work. She expounded her dignity and, without any doubt, had a talent to express strong feelings in a fascinating way. 

Her paintings are mostly self-portraits, and it is a testament to her genius that she was able to say something in so many different ways with that one subject. She said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone. Because I am the subject I know best". 

I find the work of Frida very intense and very, very personal. 

By painting herself, Frida painted her life, her emotions. Her portraits speak about love, despair, loneliness, pain. Frida's life was an open book for those who admired her artistry. Her work also expressed a love of nature and animals and ambivalence toward capitalism. She had a difficult life but produced some of the finest paintings ever created by Latin American painter.