self portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird frida kahloCreated in 1940, shortly after her temporary divorce from Diego Rivera, this painting expresses Frida Kahlo's emotional pain and resilience. Here she uses the symbolic language that characterises many of her self portraits to evoke her suffering, but also her attachment to Mexican culture and nature. It's a self portrait of rupture, but also of resistance, painted at a moment of personal fragility. Frida stands facing the viewer, upright and