Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint my Reality'

Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. She fell victim to polio at the age of six, and was then seriously hurt in a bus accident at eighteen, resulting in injuries that affected her for the rest of her life.

The young and indomitable Frida met Diego Rivera, the great mural painter, when Mexico was at a great cultural and political crossroads.

Christina Burrus