Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Portrait of a complex marriage
Mexican designers Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera painted one another for 25 years: those works provide us with an understanding of their relationship, argues Kelly Grovier.
- By Kelly Grovier
4 2017 december
Spotted side-by-side in photographs, they hit a pose that is almost comic their girth dwarfing her petite framework. Once they married, her parents called them ‘the elephant’ and ‘the dove’. He had been the older, celebrated master of frescoes whom helped to revive an ancient Mayan tradition that is mural and offered a vivid artistic vocals to native Mexican labourers seeking social equality after centuries of colonial oppression. She ended up being younger, self-mythologising dreamer, whom magically wove from piercing introspection and chronic physical discomfort paintings of the serious and mystical beauty. Leia mais →
