How did Frida Kahlo first meet Diego Rivera?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera first met in 1922 at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. At the time, Rivera was working on his first important mural, titled Creation, for the school's Bolívar Auditorium, while Kahlo was a teenage student there and not yet a practicing artist.1