the dream frida kahloPainted in 1940, The Dream (or The Bed) is a work in which Frida Kahlo explores the theme of death with a mixture of irony, surrealism and familiarity. At the time, she was acutely aware of her own mortality, exacerbated by years of physical suffering and surgical operations. This painting expresses both a lucid acceptance of death and a fantastical vision of its omnipresence. Frida is shown asleep in a four poster bed suspended in mid air, wrapped in