Blood and glitter. Red and gold. These are the things that jump into my mind when I remember Frida Kahlo.
Frida was an 18-year-old student enrolled at the National Preparatory School in Mexico city when the accident happened in 1925. The bus she was travelling on collided with an electric trolley car at high speed, and the result was carnage. The impact seemed oddly benign, Frida reminisced. “Not violent but dull and slow,
