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photo by Duncan Macfarlane

Artist Alert: Tammam Azzam

Frida Kahlo painting in bed. After her accident, Kahlo abandoned the study of medicine and began to paint, to occupy herself and ease her enormous pains during her three-month immobilization. Self-portraits were a dominant motif then. Kahlo once said, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.” Her mother had a special easel made so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes. (Source)