Frida Kahlo July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954
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When I first investigated her as a matter of personal interest, I was intrigued with her folksy naivete infused style and that vast number of portraits, including self portraiture and that accuracy evident when I compared the painting to the actual subject thereof.
She was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón and lived from the sixth of July 1907 through the thirteenth of July 1954 so that entirety of her life predated me by slightly less than a year. While I never achieved 'inspiration' from her work per se, I can say that I considered her one of the more interesting characters from history and marvelled at that skill she wielded and that casual manner with which she represented it.
Being a long term fan of surrealism and fantasy from my own personal history her work was something to which I have always been able to relate.
She passed this earthly existence after a period of declining health from what was likely bronchopneumonia shortly after a political event in which she participated with Diego Rivera, her long time love which was a demonstration against the CIA invasion of Guatemala.