Frida Kahlo's Broken Column

“. I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim (Kahlo and Lowe, Frida Kahlo).” Bed-ridden with bronchopneumonia, and filled with agonizing pain from failed reconstruction surgeries, Frida drowned herself in alcoholic and prescription drugs in her last days (Kahlo and Lowe, Frida Kahlo). The Broken Column shows a depiction of her life in her final years. It shows all her false hope and in the world around her and the horrible reality of her life. In her last days, she ends her own life by taking too many pain killers. Furthermore, her life though it seemed like a ticking clock of fate with death, her artwork seems to dance with death. In a beautiful waltz, as her life got worst, her dance with death got quicker and her