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Birthday -

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City.

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Masterpieces - In her lifetime, she painted 143 works of art, 55 of which were self-portraits.

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Accident - As a teenager, Kahlo suffered a major bus accident, which left her bedridden during recovery.

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Discovering her passion - It was during her recovery period that she was inspired to pick up a brush and begin painting.

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'The Frame' - One of her many self-portraits was entitled 'The Frame,' which she painted in 1938.

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'The Frame' - It became famous for being the first 20th-century Mexican artwork to be purchased by an international, world-renowned museum.

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'The Frame' - It was bought by the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1939.

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Illustrations - She often depicted her own physical and emotional pain through her work.

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Illustrations - Also prominently featured and influence in her work was her tumultuous relationship with fellow Mexican artist, Diego Rivera.

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Rocky marriage - She and Rivera, who was 20 years her senior, had several extramarital affairs throughout the course of their relationship.

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Affairs - Rivera even had an affair with Kahlo's sister, which greatly affected the artist.

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Affairs - Kahlo, on the other hand, was known to be bisexual, having had an affair with entertainer Josephine Baker.

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Symbol - Thus, Kahlo is also considered an icon among the LGBTQ community.

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Other lovers - Some other notable lovers of hers included sculptor Isamu Noguchi and former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky.

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Cities - During her life, Kahlo traveled a lot and even lived in New York City, San Francisco, and Paris for some time.

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'The Two Fridas' -

It was during her time in France that she painted 'The Two Fridas' (1939), pictured here.

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Animal lover - The artist owned many pets including spider monkeys, Xoloitzcuintlis, and parrots.

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Politics - She was a member of the Mexican Communist Party.

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Disabled - Towards the end of her life, Kahlo was mostly bedridden.

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Exhibition - Because of this, the artist was not expected to attend her first solo exhibition in Mexico in 1953.

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Grande entrance - Against the order of doctors, she went anyway and made quite the entrance—she showed up in style, in an ambulance!

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Death - She died shortly after her 47th birthday.

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Last words -

"I hope this exit is joyful and I hope never to return," were the last words taken from this Mexican artist's journal entry before her passing.

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Angel of Death - Also found in her diary were drawings of skeletons and angels. Her very last being a drawing of a black angel.

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Anticipation of death - It was almost like she foresaw her own mortality.

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Museum -

Today, the house in which she was born, died, and lived in with her husband, has been turned into a museum.

It is known as La Casa Azul (the Blue House).

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Museum - The home-turned-museum houses a number of Kahlo's and Rivera's artwork, along with that of other artists'.

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Museum -

It is one of the most popular museums in Mexico City and in the neighborhood of Coyoacán.

See also: Popular attractions Mexico City has to offer

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