Frida Kahlo-Alison

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist, is best recognized as a self portrait painter. Her paintings and her life cannot be separated from each other because her paintings illustrate her biography. In her surrealist paintings, she always shows her emotions and pain. During her lifetime, she went through a lot of obstacles, physical and emotional pain that she had to face, much more than what people usually face. She recorded all her feelings such as heartbreaks, love, life, and pain.
She once said "I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best." As a self-portrait- lover, I am really inspired by her works every time I see them. Her paintings are always very dramatic and powerful in her expressions of her pain and emotions. Every painting has her face (with the significant seagull eyebrows), but every single one is different and distinguished. Not only that, but also her colour uses and mediums are effectively chosen to enhance her paintings. Just like I was, many other self-portrait artists must have been inspired by her strong works.