Frida Kahlo
(July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) Mexico
Painter
Bisexual artist, born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo in Coyoacan,a suburb of Mexico-city, who mingled Mexican folk art with classical and modern style. Frida had a troubled marriage to artist Diago Rivera, but had also affairs with women.
She is probably Mexico's most famous woman painter. Her work is autobiographical and occasionally lesbian in content.
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