Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She was born in Mexico City in 1907. She painted many selfportraits and paintings of Mexican folklore. Frida went to the prestigious Escuela Preparatoria in Mexico City in 1922. At that time, there were not many girls at this school. In 1925, at the age of eighteen, Frida had a terrible traffic accident. She couldn’t walk for a long time, so she started to paint. In 1929, she married the painter Diego Rivera. The next year, they moved to New York,but Frida was not happy there. They returned to Mexico in 1935. Frida won a national art prize in 1946, and she became famous in Mexico. She died in 1954, when she was only 47 years old.
Eight days before her death in July 1954, Frida Kahlo is said to have completed what is popularly thought to have been her final painting: Viva la Vida (Long Live Life) is a bright and vibrant celebration of life in both its simplicity of composition and complexity of emotional expression.
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