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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist. She was born in 1907 in Mexico City and died in 1954.

She created many self-portraits in her lifetime and they are some of her most famous artworks. They often tell us something about what she was feeling and what was happening in her life at that time.

Frida Kahlo had a lot of illnesses in her lifetime. When she was six years old, she found out she had an illness called polio.

When she was 18 years old she was injured when a bus that she was travelling on crashed.

Frida had to stay in bed to heal, and her mother brought her an easel which allowed her to paint in bed.

Frida Kahlo was born and grew up in The Blue House, in Mexico City. It is now the Frida Kahlo Museum.

Frida loved this house and made each part look like a work of art, with colours, objects and patterns.

Frida is also well-known for having a bright and colourful sense of fashion.

She loved to wear traditional Mexican clothes and big colourful jewellery. Her hair was often decorated with scarves and ribbons.

Maybe you could make a self-portrait wearing your favourite outfit?

Frida Kahlo, her style and art are so popular that it is possible to buy all sorts of products with her face on them. Socks, bags, cushions, notepads and many more items can be seen in shops around the world.

Frida loved her home country of Mexico. Día de Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead is a big celebration in Mexico. It happens in November and is a joyful time to remember people that are no longer with us. During the festivities, skeletons are decorated and paraded as part of the celebrations.

You could have a go at drawing and decorating skeletons like the ones below, using bright colours and patterns. You could even make a mask by cutting out eye holes.

• Frida Kahlo and one of her artworks - called The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl - appears on one side of the 500 peso (Mexican currency) note.
• In her lifetime, Frida painted around 142 paintings, and 55 were self-portraits.
• Frida Kahlo is considered to be one of the surrealist painters, in the same group as artists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. She did not think of herself as one though.