"... Feet, why do I want them?
if I have wings to fly? "

Frida Kahlo fought for her dreams, for happiness and for love.

He stood up in the face of all adversity, simply extolling his life through his art.

One of the muses that has had the history of art of all times, is that of suffering.

Evidence of this is: the life of Van Gogh in painting, that of Camille Claudel in sculpture and that of Arthur Rimbaud in literature.

In the arts of Latin America, one of the most representative figures of that overwhelming inspiration that produces suffering is the Mexican Frida Kahlo, who today is an icon of the painting of her country and the rest of the world.

His life was plagued by a permanent ordeal, in which precisely, art became a sedative, to which all artists come, as the only way to survive the inclemency of life.

Frida was not a precocious artist, she was not born with an innate talent.

Already at age 6 he had polio, and fought not only to survive for his life, but also for his emotional integrity to have to coexist with the physical consequences that this disease left him.

But it was September 17, 1925, when a car accident completely changed his life. The collision between a tram and the truck in which he was traveling with his first boyfriend forced him to a long convalescence.

In this regard, Frida commented that this would have been the brutal way in which she had lost her virginity. This accident affected the spine, the pelvis and the womb.

During his convalescence he learned to live with boredom, and with his father's watercolors he began decorating his corsets and small canvases.

Her mother ordered a special easel so that she could paint lying down and there she painted her first self-portraits.

Según las propias palabras de Frida:

I paint myself because I am often alone and because I am the person I know best...

During these years he learned the ability to express his inner world. No one with a brush ever showed fear, love, pain like the unsurpassed FRIDA KAHLO, she never gave up.

Four years after that serious blow, this woman who used to dress in Mexican indigenous clothes, marries the painter Diego Rivera, who would be another of the great torments of his life.

"I suffered two serious accidents in my life ... One in which a tram ran over me and the second was Diego"

It was her talent that united her to the great love of her life Diego Rivera; a stormy love full of infidelities.

Frida tried to have children but could not due to the accident that had occurred in her youth, the doctors sentenced that she would never be able to conceive.

During this period his oil shows the great pain that this caused him, he suffered multiple abortions.

For this type of paintings he is encased in the surrealist movement. In 1935 André Bretón qualifies his art as a surrealist of the highest level, to which Frida Kahlo replies:

"I do not paint dreams ... I paint my reality"

She insists that this was not the focus of her works. After living for a year in Paris surrounded by surrealists, she wrote about this movement: "You can not imagine how jocular these people are; They make me throw up. They are so damned intellectual and degenerate, that I can not take them anymore. "

During her life, the artist holds three exhibitions: one in New York, another in the Gallery of Lola Álvarez Bravo, in Mexico, and one more in Paris.

The Louvre Museum then acquires one of its most valued self-portraits.

Despite all the torment, the last work of Frida Kahlo gives proof of the resistance that must be in every person and how the human being must overcome all the problems that life implies.

It is a beautiful and simple still life starring watermelons, in one of which, apart from his signature, he wrote the words VIVA LA VIDA, the same name as the painting.

A simple, but very emblematic, drawn eight days before his death, as if this was a warning that the end of life is one more step and that all suffering can be released and purged through the passion for the arts.

Frida Kahlo dies in La Casa Azul on July 13, 1954, when the National Institute of Fine Arts prepared a retrospective exhibition as a national tribute.

Today his work has been placed in an important place in the art market.
His paintings are in numerous private collections in Mexico, Europe and the United States.
His personality has been adopted as one of the flags of international feminism.
Frida Kahlo has become a legend, a cultural reference that goes beyond the myth that the painter created of herself.