'Created amid high drama': The animals that symbolise pain and passion in a Frida Kahlo self-portrait ^28.4%

BBC - By Arwa Haider - 6/26/2026, 11:00 AM

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'Created amid high drama': The animals that symbolise pain and passion in a Frida Kahlo self-portrait A hummingbird, a spider monkey, a black cat and dragonflies – what the animal imagery in an iconic 1940 painting tells us about the artist's trauma, resilience and defiant desire. "Fridamania" is in full force. Mexican painter Frida... more