Frida Kahlo – Perhaps the Greatest Mexican ArtistWednesday, July
18th, 2012 Frida Kahlo, one of the world’s most renowned Latin
American painters, braved an arduous path to becoming a great
artist. Kahlo is known for her self-portraits as well as her
marriage to fellow Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Mid-July marks
the 58th anniversary of her death on July 13, 1954. Frida
Kahlo’s early years Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico,
then a small town outside of Mexico City (now a neighborhood
within the sprawling metropolis that is Mexico’s Federal
District). Her mother, Matilde Calderón y González, was a
Mexican home-maker of Spanish and Amerindian descent, and her
father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a German photographer. When Kahlo
was six she was struck with polio, making her right leg thinner
than her left. Throughout her life she tried to disguise her
deformity by wearing long and colorful skirts. Early on Kahlo
aspired to become a doctor and entered a pre-med program in
Mexico City. However, her plans changed