Feminist, fashion icon, revolutionary, survivor: the Mexican artist’s greatest creation was her own defiant self.

That was Frida Kahlo’s last journal entry ... those words on a wedge of watermelons in a still life of carved-up fruit. Eight days later, she was dead.

Frida Kahlo understood that self-portraiture could ... Above the Mexican flag is a green parrot next to red fruit. It extends the color into the surrounding subject matter and removes some intensity.