Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) qualifies as such.
Her FULL name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
Frida Kahlo was the third of four daughters of Wilhelm Kahlo, a German Jew of Hungarian descent, and Matilde Calderon de Kahlo, a mestizo Mexican.
She cannot answer this question any more. What makes a painting surrealistic can be a matter of opinion.
She never quite recovered, she was bed-ridden for the rest of her life. her mother made her a special easel with which she could paint in bed.
if you are on plato it is her inner struggle with her heritage
yes. She began painting during the long periods of illness she experienced as a child. her mother put a mirror above her bed and she painted herself from bed.
They were divorced in 1940 and remarried the same year.
1925-1954 she was a full-time painter.
For her unusual and different style of art and for being Diego Rivera's fourth wife. She was considered an icon for her "pain and passion" and for her intense, vibrant colors. Check out the movie Frida.
When Frida was 15 Diego was painting a mural near Frida's school. She fell in love and said she would marry him, which they did 7 years later.
She was mainly a painter, but she also did some teaching.
Possibly it was the double self-portrait called "The Two Fridas." It was painted in 1939, around the time of her divorce from the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
In many museums in the US and Europe, and of course in her museum in Mexico City. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has some.
Only as a background, she made only one or two flower still lifes.
The most influential person was her husband, Diego Rivera.