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A source of controversy related to Frida Kahlo
Hidden behind the portraits of Frida Kahlo is the remarkable story of the artist’s life. It is precisely this combination that attracts the spectator. Frida’s work is a testimony of her life; it is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the frame of their paintings. Frida Kahlo is without any doubt Mexico’s gift to art history.
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Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: A Dual Palette of Passionate Creativity
Gerry Souter brings together both biographies and underlines with passion the link which existed between the two greatest Mexican artists of the 20th century.
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From Murals to Masterpieces: The Legacy of Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was born into a Mexico that consisted of a class-tiered society dependent on blood lines and political affiliations. The period was called the Porfiriato after the administration of autocratic President Don Porfirio Díaz.
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Mexican Painting – the story of the ever so restless Mexico
Mexican painting did not come to be internationally recognised until the early 20th century. It was the muralist movement, starting in the 1920s and strongly connected to the Mexican Revolution of the previous decade, from which such great artists as José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Diego Rivera emerged.
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Diego Rivera et Frida Khalo. Encore?
Sans paraitre médisante, il semble que peut-être nous aurions fait le tour de la question depuis le temps. Depuis le temps que l’on entend parler de ces deux-là, à grands coups de biographies, d’ouvrages généraux, de recherches studieuses d’étudiants fascinés, d’expositions et autres films. Cependant, peut-on réellement se lasser des œuvres de Frida ? La souffrance, la joie, son amour pour Diego et sa famille, l’étrangeté et la richesse de sa vie… Tout transparait dans sa toile qui devient le prolongement d’elle-même. À mon sens, Frida Kahlo est l’artiste qui (dé)peint le mieux la souffrance et les émotions passionnées poussées à leur paroxysme. Bien plus que ses contemporains Munch ou encore…
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The Pond-Like Qualities of Frida and Diego
Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo. A new exhibition at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. It feels like old ground, and yet we (and, by we, I mean museums and galleries), keep on putting new exhibitions up, re-showing the same work over and over again. Isn’t this just a curriculum which we are repeating? A monopoly set where we never get to pass ‘GO’? A dream that we never seem to be able to wake up from? No, actually it isn’t. What we can learn from Frida and Diego, and all other artists who are being exhibited (be it once, twice, or two thousand times), is that their work is important.…
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A Life Most Solitary?
The place: Mexico. The year: Post-1910. Mexico was on the verge of change. Political instability, the blight of dictatorship, a peasants’ revolt: with events such as the Mexican Revolution fresh in everyone’s minds, passions must have run high. Actions were no longer as restrained. The freedoms of speech and desire were rife. We need only look to those well-known Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera for reference. Despite the volatile relationship shared by the painters (both of whom had several extra-marital affairs during their time together), Kahlo lived in an isolated world. A pain-filled existence was all she ever knew from the age of 6, when she contracted polio,…
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