As a result of a terrible bus accident, at the age of 18, Frida was unable to have children. His obsession with fertility was often a recurring theme in his paintings. In this painting, the life-giving sun is surrounded by plants shaped like penises and female wombs protecting a developing fetus. The painting, Sun and Life, also reveals Frida’s sadness over her infertility, as shown by the weeping sun and the fetus.
