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===Marxism will give health to the sick === This was one of Kahlo's last paintings. After over 30 surgeries during her lifetime, her right lower leg was amputated due to gangrene, after a lifetime of sores, infections and ulcers. Kahlo probably had [[fibromyalgia]] by this time and she was [[fatigue]]d, [[depression|depressed]] and suicidal. In the painting she wears a metal corset to support her spine, ans the painting expresses hope from politics.<ref name="FineArts" /> {{Quote frame|text=Her greatest appeal is her strength in adversity. Her chief subject was pain, pain caused by the slow deterioration of her body due to injuries suffered when a streetcar plowed into the bus she was riding when she was 18, and pain caused by her turbulent 25-year marriage to Diego Rivera who deceived her often -- even with her favorite sister -- and who divorced her once for a year. Frida confronted the pain of her 35 or so surgical operations and her sorrow over not being able to bear a child by projecting it into paint. She made light of Rivera's philandering and forgave him, saying "I do not think the banks of a river suffer by letting the water run."<ref name="nytimes"/> | author = Hayden Herrera|source=ART VIEW; Why Frida Kahlo Speaks to the 90's, New York Times (1990) | date = 1990}}
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