Her life and art were inseparable, almost like a living painting: her experiences, her love for Diego Rivera, and her suffering all flowed into her work, and back again.
Her self-portraits, like The Two Fridas and Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, made the world sit up and take notice, mixing surrealism, folk art, and raw emotion in a way no one had seen before. By the time the…