<P> Self - Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas) is a 1940 painting by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo . </P> <P> Kahlo painted the self - portrait after her divorce from Diego Rivera and the end of her affair with photographer Nickolas Muray . Muray bought the portrait shortly after it was painted, and it is currently part of the Nickolas Muray collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin . </P> <P> Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter active between 1925 and 1954 . She began painting while bedridden due to a bus accident that left her seriously disabled . Most of her work consists of self - portraits, which deal directly with her struggle with medical issues, infertility, and her troubled marriage to Rivera . Painting self - portraits was therapeutic, allowing Kahlo to create a separate Frida on which to project her anguish and pain . Scholars have interpreted her self portraits as a way for Kahlo to reclaim her body from medical issues and gender conformity . In particular, scholars have interpreted her self - portraits in the context of the tradition of male European artists using the female body as the subject of their paintings and an object of desire . Kahlo, using her own image, reclaims this use from the patriarchal tradition . The autobiographical details of her life found in these works as well as her characteristic brows, elaborate hair, and vibrant Mexican clothing has made her a popular figure in Mexico and the United States . </P> <P> Kahlo was a big supporter of the Mexican Revolution, so much so that she attempted to change her birth date to correspond with the beginning of the Revolution in 1910 . At the onset of this movement, a so - called "cult of Mexican femininity" gained popularity, which Jolie Olcott describes as "selflessness, martyrdom, self - sacrifice, an erasure of self and the negation of one's outward existence ." In rejection of this limited conception of femininity, Kahlo fashioned herself as a Mexican counterpart to the flappers of the United States and Europe in the 1920s . Later, inspired by Rivera's concept of Mexicanidad, a passionate identification with Mexican pre-Hispanic indigenous roots, she donned the identity of the Tehuana woman . The Tehuana had a great deal of equality with their male Zapotec counterparts and represented strength, sensuality, and exoticism . </P>

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