2 Quotes & Sayings By Farida Kahlo
Farida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. She is best known for her self-portraits and for her personal life, which she depicted with tragic realism. The daughter of a well-to-do family, she was also a political activist, who became a member of the Communist Party of Mexico. She was married to muralist Diego Rivera from 1929 to 1940, and they had one daughter, who died as an infant
In 1952, Kahlo married the Mexican Communist leader Frida Kahlo and changed her name to "Marina." In 1954, two years after Diego's death from a heart attack at age seventy-five, Marina suffered a near fatal accident that left her partially paralyzed and unable to paint or hold a brush. She returned to work after several years of rehabilitation, but her life was taken by a rare form of cancer in 1977 at the age of sixty-eight.