Frida Kahlo

There's a Frida Kahlo exhibit in San Francisco right now at the SF Museum of Modern Art. Kahlo was a Mexican painter, who had quite a colorful life to go with her colorful paintings.

If you aren't sure who she is, the easiest way to tell you is, "She's the painter with the big ol' unibrow on her forehead in all her self-portraits." Ring a bell?

Kahlo was married to another famous artist, Diego Rivera.

Frida Kahlo had a lot of physical problems. She was in a bus accident when she was young, in which much of her body was damaged. She ended up having something like 35 operations. She also had polio as a child. So she was in pain a lot, but lived a vibrant and interesting life.

Take a look at her paintings and see what you think. I don't know what to tell you about the unibrow - she didn't really look like that in real life, as you can tell in photographs. And she gave herself a moustache too! But her art sure does stick in your mind, and it was clearly done by a vivacious person with her very own way of seeing the world.