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Though art lovers may have figured out what's going on with Google's doodle this morning, non-connoisseurs could be left in the dark. The doodle (Google's word for the rendering of its name on its homepage) today is a tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907.
Kahlo's biography was the stuff of Hollywood. She began painting in 1926, after a bus accident resulted in a broken spine, leg, collarbone, ribs and pelvis. While bedridden for a year, Kahlo picked up a paint brush to stave off boredom. From then until her death in 1954, she painted 200 works, many of them self-portraits that proudly displayed her feminine mustache and abundant eyebrows.
In 1929 she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who was 20 years her senior. The couple had a fractious marriage. Neither would remain monogamous -- Rivera had an affair with Frida's younger sister, and Kahlo, who was bisexual, had affairs with both men and women. The couple divorced once only to get remarried a year later.
Kahlo was also tortured during her lifetime with an inability to have a child, having aborted one pregnancy when it was clear that her health could not sustain it and having had a miscarriage a few years later.
She died in 1954 at the age of 47, in Coyoacán, Mexico, where she was born.
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