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Frida Kahlo's Self Portraits

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Frida Kahlo painted a self portrait of herself after divorcing her unfaithful husband, artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo has many self portraits of herself, showing an abundance of emotion and personality through her paintings. She has many portraits in traditional women’s Mexican dresses and flowing hair. She would say, “I do not know if my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.
Fridas troubled life has made an great impact on her career of painting. In the painting has a lyric of a Mexican song “Look if I loved you It was because of your hair, now that you are without hair, I don’t love you anymore. After divorcing Diego, they still remained friends. In the portrait shows the love and the

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