DALLAS — Why did Frida Kahlo paint? It almost feels impertinent to ask. The more polite approach, I suppose, would be to limit ourselves to parsing the significance of what she did paint.

Also known as Diego Rivera. Frida met the artist when she was a student and they married in 1929. He already had children by three women, two of them his wives. Frida and Diego had many rich ...

Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. When she was a young girl, she had a serious illness called polio, and afterwards she always walked with a limp. Other children were unkind to her because ...