Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who is most known for her portraits, self-portraits, and works influenced by Mexican nature and artifacts. She used a naive folk painting style to investigate problems of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society, inspired by the country's popular culture.

Her success as a painter and her inventions in introducing Mexican culture to a larger audience has made her a pop-culture figure, but this should not eclipse her tremendous skill as a painter or her innovations in bringing Mexican culture to a wider audience. Her deeply intimate self-portraits also signal a new approach for modern artists, one in which art was more about expressing inner emotion than impressing a collector or patron.