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'Feet, what do I need you for?' How lockdown fired up Frida Kahlo

7 mins | May 4, 2020
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She transformed her bedroom into a sanctuary, and her pain into magnificent work. With a year to live, and confined to bed by injury and illness, Frida Kahlo decided to turn things around and "break out of those four walls, express herself and tell her story through painting." Writing in the Guardian, Javier Pes explores Kahlo's remarkable life story.

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