Mexico celebrates Frida Kahlo - The artist’s homeland marks the 100th anniversary of her birth with a months-long fiesta.

“Among the dozens of spooky, iconic images made by Mexico’s most spookily iconic artist, few pack more potent symbolism than the 1939 double self-portrait “The Two Fridas.”

On the right side of the large oil painting, Frida Kahlo depicted herself in traditional Mexican garb, her heart hovering outside her body like a phantasm, while in one hand she cradles a small portrait of her then ex-husband, Diego Rivera, rendered as a little boy. On the left side, Kahlo portrayed herself in a lacy white gown, her heart cleaved in two, blood leaking from a severed artery.”

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