Frida Kahlo was an artist born in Mexico, who's paintings were mainly about her self and people she knew and others were scary and creepy looking. Frida suffered through out life with illnesses, inability to bear a child, and marriage struggle. Frida's paintings were based off true life experiences. She liked to make self-portraits of her self because that was the subject she knew the best. The paintings that were scary looking were mainly about a painful and awful event that she went through. The colors she used were very bright and folkloric. The majority of the paintings were realistic and some abstract. Painting was a way for her to release some of the feelings she burried inside. Frida was a woman who was emotionally unstable. After her death the value of her paintings increased dramatically, some sold for millions.