🌸 Frida Kahlo 🌸 was born at ❤️ La Casa Azul 💔 (The Blue House) 🏡 in Coyoacan, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City in 1907. At age six, Kahlo contracted polio; a long recovery isolated her from other children and permanently damaged one of her legs, causing her to walk with a limp after recovery. At 18 Kahlo was involved in a near fatal bus accident. She suffered multiple fractures throughout her body, including a crushed pelvis, and a metal rod impaled her womb. She spent one month in the hospital immobile, and bound in a plaster corset, and following this period, many more months bedridden at home. During her long recovery she began to experiment in small-scale autobiographical portraiture, henceforth abandoning her medical pursuits due to practical circumstances and turning her focus to art. The impact of her illness allowed the artist to explore her ideas of feminism and womanhood and develop her own personal philosophy from a perspective different from her peers. It’s important not to identify Kahlo by her pain, but rather celebrate the ways she used her afflictions to understand life and build a career as an artist (Google Arts) #fridakahlo #fridaquotes #fridakahloquotes #artquotes #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #quotestagram #artquote #mexicocity #arthistory #arthistorian #arthistorynerd #diegorivera #culturamexicana #ciudaddemexico (at Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CENKUhsAKS6/?igshid=1pztc6m5326be