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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits exploring questions of identity. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that caused lifelong pain, undergoing 32 surgeries. Inspired by Mexican culture, she began painting while immobilized, using her image and experience with pain and suffering as her primary subject. Her work depicted her physical and emotional experiences without modesty, incorporating Mexican cultural symbols like parrots, cacti, and traditional dress.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits exploring questions of identity. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that caused lifelong pain, undergoing 32 surgeries. Inspired by Mexican culture, she began painting while immobilized, using her image and experience with pain and suffering as her primary subject. Her work depicted her physical and emotional experiences without modesty, incorporating Mexican cultural symbols like parrots, cacti, and traditional dress.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits exploring questions of identity. She was in a bus accident at age 18 that caused lifelong pain, undergoing 32 surgeries. Inspired by Mexican culture, she began painting while immobilized, using her image and experience with pain and suffering as her primary subject. Her work depicted her physical and emotional experiences without modesty, incorporating Mexican cultural symbols like parrots, cacti, and traditional dress.

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    Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by

    the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naive folk
    art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

    Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is known
    for painting about her experience of chronic pain

    She was born with spin disease, deforming her spine, and at the age of 6, she contracts polio. Because of
    this serious infectious disease, she suffers from chronic pain. In addition, her right leg stops growing,
    causing a malformation.

    On 17 September 1925, on her way home from school, her bus hit a tramway. This accident sealed her
    fate. Although she survived, she was nevertheless seriously injured. Her right foot and her shoulde were
    completely dislocated. Her spine and femoral neck was broken. Suffering excruciatingly, she remains in
    bed for several months. In total, until the end of her life, she undergoes 32 surgeries and will wear 28
    corsets.

    Back home, she was forced to stay in bed. At that time, she wrote: “I am not dead and I have a reason to
    live. That reason is painting”.

    Art became the outlet for all her ills and the catalyst for her healing. She began an important series of
    self-portraits.

    Her work is inseparable from her life. From the very beginning of her artistic practice, immobilized after
    her accident, Frida Kahlo took her own image as her favorite subject. She depicts her moral and physical
    suffering without modesty or concession.

    her “Mexicanness” that she claims in the representations of herself, reveals her deep affection for her
    nation’s cultural heritage. In fact, she often wore ra traditional dress, very colorful and embellished with
    floral embroidery. Also, she frequently wore braids or buns decorated with flowers.

    More generally, in many of her paintings, Mexican culture is symbolized, especially by its fauna and
    flora. Parrots and cacti are integrated into her compositions, as well as other elements of local folklore.

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