Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, also known as Frida Kahlo, is widely hailed as one of the most remarkable painters of all time. She became an icon, an inspiration to most artists and also to those who have disabilities. Today, nearly 50 years after her death, the Mexican artist’s iconic images are displayed in museums, calendars, greeting cards, posters, pins, and even paper dolls. Frida hand-crafted her own image. One on par with Cleopatra as well as other iconic, famous artists in history. We know many interesting facts about Frida. She produced about 200 paintings and most of these artworks feature still life, and portraits of herself, her family, and friends. She also kept an illustrated journal and did dozens of drawings that are fascinating and enchanting. With techniques learned from both her husband and her father, Frida created mesmerizing, sensual, and stunningly original paintings that expressed elements of surrealism, fantasy, and folklore into powerful narratives. In stark contrast to the 20th-century’s leaning toward abstract art, Frida Kahlo’s work was staunchly figurative. Despite occasionally being commissioned for portraits, she sold relatively few paintings while she was alive. Today, however, her works fetch astronomical prices at auction. In 2000, a self-portrait painted in 1929 sold for more than $5 million. Frida was born in Mexico on July 6th, 1907, and passed away at the age of 47 on July 13th, 1954. She was born in Coyoacán, a village on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico. She was raised by her parents Guillermo Kahlo, who was a photographer, and Matilde Calderón y González. Her father, Guillermo, moved to Mexico from Germany after he sufferedfrom epilepsy caused by an accident which eventually ended his university studies. Frida described her childhood as a “very very sad” memory. Both her parents were often ill and their marriage was devoid of love. Her relationship with her mother was somehow extreme and quite interesting. Her mother she described as "affectionate, active and intelligent, but also calculating, brutal and fanatically religious.” Her father had a photography business which suffered during the Mexican Revolution because the recently overthrown government had commissioned works from him, and the long civil war limited the number of private clients. When Frida was six years old, she had polio, which eventually made her right leg grow shorter and thinner than her left leg. Poliomyelitis, mo