Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's face, which she painted throughout her short life, is one of the most famous in the history of art. Gravely injured after a terrible accident, and consumed by her passionate devotion to Diego Rivera, the artist transcended her suffering through painting. With the power of her brush, she confronted her torments to assert herself as a free woman and painter. In her studio at the Blue House, she freed herself from the yoke of the European avant-garde and all moral and artistic codes, creating a body of work imbued with her personal history, her political ideals, and ancestral Mexican traditions. Darkness and joy, love and violence, sensuality and the death drive: her painting reads like an oxymoron that says everything about the magnetic personality of this revolutionary artist, one of the most fascinating and powerful figures in the history of 20th-century art.