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also often feature imagery with roots growing out of her body; she developed a complex iconography, extensively employing pre-Columbian and Christian symbols and mythology in her paintings. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the
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and other works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She often featured her own body in her paintings, presenting it in varying states and disguises: as wounded, broken, as a child or clothed in different outfits, such as
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that claimed to resist the "mindset of cultural inferiority" created by colonialism by placing special importance on
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magazine entitled "Señoras of Mexico". She is depicted outdoors, seated next to an
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attire, a man's suit or European dress. Kahlo was heavily influenced by
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This picture of Kahlo was taken by American photographer
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