s,” shows Frida surrounded by her “children”. Frida found great comfort with her pets. These pets became an emotional outlet for Frida’s depression against her Hernandez 4unwillingness body to produce her children. As any woman reluctant to bear children, Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in despair and mental suffering. Many believe that Kahlo’s best paintings were produced during her time of great depression. Eventually she would attempt suicide, like her paintings. “I paint my own reality, the only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without consideration”, Frida would later comment (Tibol 1-6).In 1954, Frida Kahlo became seriously ill. Despite this, Frida attended demonstrations against the North-American intervention in Guatemala. She was always rebellious and involved. She died on July 13, 1954. Pulmonary embolism was the cause of her death, although the suicidal thought’s recorded in her diary suggest that she might have taken her own life. Frida Kahlo was a woman who suffered a great deal during her life. She not only suffered physically, but mentally as well. Frida left all her emotions on canvas. She painted her anger and hurt over her stormy marriage with Diego Rivera, the painful miscarriages, and the physical suffering she underwent because of the accident. “ I leave to you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you”, Frida wrote (6). Even with Frida Kahlo dead for almost four decades, she is still celebrated and thought of as an idol. Frida Kahlo’s thick and connecting eyebrows will remain her trademark throughout the world for centuries to come....
