You’ve seen her surreal self-portraits, her stoic gaze beneath those bold eyebrows. You’ve seen the vibrant colors of her paintings, the alluring images that are at once ancient and modern. And ...

Explore the early life of Frida Kahlo as she discovers her genius for painting. Explore the early life of Frida Kahlo as she discovers her genius for painting following a tragic, life-changing ...

Carla Gutiérrez was a teen college student and a new immigrant to the United States when she saw the painting. Like much of Frida Kahlo’s work, it was a self-portrait. In the image, Kahlo stands ...

Throughout her life Kahlo used her artwork as a way to process her own emotions, producing what are now some of the most valuable–and most widely reproduced– paintings of the twentieth century.

Next to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Frida Kahlo’s gaze is the most inscrutable and captivating in all of art history. In self-portrait after self-portrait, the Mexican artist—through her fixed, ...