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Frida Kahlo's paintings are incredibly famous, but their meanings can remain enigmatic. Here are the stories behind 10 Frida Kahlo paintings.

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Collection Antony Bryan Self Portrait - Time Flies (1929) This self-portrait was painted the year Frida and Diego were married. It portrays the Frida that Rivera loved. Here she has replaced the Renaissance style of her previous paintings with the more traditional Mexican folk style of painting that was being used by Diego in his murals. This painting is in sharp contrast to her first selfportrait (1926) in which she appears as the melancholy aristocrat in dark flat colors. She now uses…

FRIDA KAHLO, ‘Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird’, 1940. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin. @ransomcenter

Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings allows readers a privileged glimpse into the private world of the legendary artist, in the most comprehensive collection of her works yet

See paintings from a massive new coffee table book from Taschen, "Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings," by Luis-Martín Lozano.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón—commonly known as Frida Kahlo—influenced art, fashion and politics, making a considerable mark on today’s society.

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Part of the "Frida in Dialogue" Lecture Series offered in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular at the Museum of Fine Arts. Rick Lopez, Professor of History, Amherst College "Nationalism, Folk Aesthetics, and Radical Politics in the Art and Self-Presentation of Fri