In 1925 he learned the technique of etching with Fernando Fernández Domínguez. On 17 September the same year a streetcar accident left her with permanent injuries because her spine was fractured and nearly broken and several ribs, neck and pelvis, dislocated his right foot, his shoulder was dislocated and A handrail pierced her belly, introduciéndosele the left side. The medicine of her time tortured her with surgical operations (32 throughout her life) corsets of different types and various means of "stretching. "
The boredom that caused your prostration led to start painting: in 1926, still in his convalescence, he painted his first portrait, the first of a series in which express the life events and emotional reactions to them. Most of his paintings are held straight in bed and bathroom. But his great strength and energy to live allowed a significant recovery.
Following this recovery, which returned the ability to walk, a close friend introduced her to the artistic circles of Mexico where they were, among others, the renowned photographer, artist and communist Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera.
In 1938 the Surrealist poet and essayist André Breton describes his surreal work of writing an essay for the exhibition of Kahlo at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. However, she later states: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but it was not. I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality. "
