"It is impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person, her paintings are her biography." This was announced in 1953 by a local critic after his only solo exhibition in Mexico (www.fridakahlo.com). Frida Kahlo was not only a magnificent painter, but also a representation of her native country, Mexico, through her meaningful paintings. Despite being surrounded by only herself, Frida found great inspiration to paint in the first half of the 1900s. Her passion for painting arose from a car accident as a teenager, which left her paralyzed due to fractures in her spine and pelvis. Even before the car accident, she contracted polio at age six in the suburbs of Mexico City, where she grew up. His image depicts courage, which is why self-portraits play a prominent role in his work. More than half of her 200 works of art are self-portraits because "...I am so often alone...I am the subject I know best." Frida grew up in Mexico City, Mexico, and it wasn't much of a luxury. Despite this, he loved his country. The proof of this is the fact that, even though she was born in 1907, she likes to say that she was born in 1910 because that was the beginning of the Mexican Revolution (“Myths of Latin America”). Frida Kahlo lived in a rather diverse family. His father was Hungarian Jewish and his mother was a native Mexican of Spanish and Indian ancestry. She was one of four daughters in the family. Her two older sisters were called Matilde and Adriana, and the youngest sister was called Christina, but followed Frida only by a year. His father was commonly known by the name Guillermo, and was a moderately successful German photographer. Many of her paintings reflect the tight-knit home that she... is middle of paper.......youtube.com. Network. May 5, 2014. .Helland, Janice. “Culture, Politics, and Identity in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo.” Women's Art Journal. 1990. Network. 28 April 2014. .James, Angie. "By Frida Kahlo." Pictify. NP, December 17, 2013. Web. May 23, 2014."Myths of Latin America." Polisci, Wisconsin, Web. May 1, 2014..Whacker, Pud. "My Birth by Frida Kahlo." Madonna album by Pub Whacker. Np, July 2, 2009. Web. May 23, 2014. "Welcome to the Frida Kahlo website (A Tribute to Frida Kahlo)." Frida Kahlo. Np, Web. 25 April. 2014. .