ed, and powerful with a kind of transcendent resignation. She approached her own image as a work of art creating and re-creating it. As Zamora wrote, Kahlo Aseems to have wanted to invent her own biography, to plot her own myth and legend@ (8).
It was while Kahlo was recovering from her streetcar accident that she began to paint. Prior to the accident, she had planned to become a doctor and was attending the eminent National Preparatory School, ALa Prepa,@ where she made friends with a small group of bright students interested in politics as well as pranks. When she was bedridden, her mother had a special easel made for her so that she could paint while lying on her back. Her subjects were her family and the people who came to visit her. AUsing a mirror attached overhead to her bed=s canopy, she painted he
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