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Frida Kahlo: One Of The Greatest Artist In Mexico

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Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico City to Wilhelm Kahlo and Matilde Calderon. Kahlo was considered one of the greatest artists in Mexico, Frida Kahlo began to paint after she was seriously injured in a bus accident. She became politically active and married artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954. Frida Kahlo's career was influenced by the traumatic physical and psychological events of her childhood and Her early adulthood including an incapacitating accident and her husband's infidelity to her younger sister. His mixed ancestry - Mexican and German - provided a rich source of commodity, particularly during World War II, when Kahlo changed the spelling of

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