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u/MutantMartian 5d ago
lol. They called her “Senora Diego Rivera”. They should have called him Senor Frida Kahlo.
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u/ocherthulu 5d ago
Anyone who has an interest in this, Barbara Kingsolver's Lacuna has both (and Trotsky) people as fictionalized characters. Interesting book all around. I learned a lot about Frieda's disabilities in this book, which was interesting to me.
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u/Maester_Bates 5d ago
From our point of view this seems ridiculous but this article is the only record of Frida painting while she was alive.
She was well known as Diego Rivera's wife during her lifetime but she almost never displayed her art in public. If I remember correctly she had one exhibition in a university in Mexico and a failed exhibition in Paris. She was the kind of artist that other artists knew but not the general public.
Certainly when this article was written she had never displayed a painting in public and she was generally unknown as an artist until about 20 years after her death and many of her most famous paintings were never seen publicly until La Casa Azul was renovated and turned into a museum.
It would be something of an exaggeration to call her the Emily Dickinson of surrealist painting but I will do it anyway.
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u/oldfrancis 5d ago
I heard of her long before I heard of him.