Frida Khalo, my favourite painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived in the first half of the 20th century. Her work was influenced by her health problems: she suffered from poliomyelitis and in addition she had an accident when the little bus in which she was travelling crashed with a trolley and her back and pelvis broke. Because of that she underwent more than thirty surgeries during her life and she had to stay long periods of time in bed, from where she painted lots of her paintings. She painted over two hundred works, most of them self-portraits, in which she reflected her suffering, her pain and the different difficulties she found in her life. Her style was influenced by her husband Diego Rivera and other muralists of Mexican popular art from those years but it went further: she developed a unique, personal and metaphoric style. During her life some art critics said that her paintings belonged to the surrealism movement, but she always rejected their opinions by saying that she never painted dreams but her reality. I love her work because of her style and her use of the colour and the folk Mexican elements, but above all because she tells us about her interesting biography and transmits her stormy feelings in a direct way. Some people think that part of her paintings are hard to see, especially the miscarriages’ ones, but in my opinion they are all meaningful, powerful and extremely expressive.