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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907 – 1954) was a Mexican painter whose utterly original work dove deeply into issues of gender, class, and race, employing surrealist (or perhaps magical realist) imagery. She was an ardent Communist, and an exponent of Mexicanidad, a movement extolling indigenous Mexican culture over Colonial values and aesthetics. André Breton famously described Kahlo’s work as "a ribbon around a bomb." Kahlo was well-acquainted with sorrow: at 18, she was horribly injured in a bus accident, and was tormented by physical pain for the rest of her life. Men also tormented (and fascinated) her, including her notoriously philandering husband, muralist Diego Rivera, and lovers as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky.