Monday, September 30, 2013

Frida Kahlo

I got an amazing comment on my last Paisley post, I wanted to honor the beautiful artist Frida Kahlo. I'm deeply touched, thank you. ; Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter best know for her surrealist self-portraits, depicting her intense emotional and physical pain. She was three years old at the onset of the Mexican Revolution, a fact which colored her from the very beginning of her life, including accounts of how her mother would rush her and her three sisters into the house because of outbreaks of gunfire in the streets outside her house. Sometimes her mother would even invite the hungry revolutionaries in for dinner... –Wikipaintings  More here.

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