Word: frida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting Diego Rivera's newest publicity-winning outburst-this time in the world of couture [TIME, May 3]-you might have added that his wife, Frida Kahlo ... is Mexico's best woman painter...
Twice wed to Diego, Frida Kahlo has often painted herself in the costume you show; but oftener in the sin ropa. Several years ago she presented herself on canvas as a stark naked girl standing in the garden of her family home in Coyoacan-in the outskirts of Mexico City and which she still owns-with miniatures from her family tree wafting nebulously overhead ... In many ways she is much more exciting .. . than her husband...
...been created by people for people. The Mexican women who do not wear it do not belong to the people, but are mentally and emotionally dependent on a foreign class to which they wish to belong, i.e., the great American and French bureaucracy." His wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, said he, has worn nothing but Mexican clothes for 22 years, and when she went to Paris in 1939, Madame Elsa Schiaparelli was so impressed that she designed a "robe Madame Rivera...
...years old-standing near the Indian street girl. That street girl was the second love in my life. She's more vivid to me now-our contact was more violent. And that lady with the pinwheels, way over on the right, is Lupe Marin, my first wife. Frida Kahlo, my third wife, has one hand on my shoulder. That thing in her other hand is the Chinese symbol for the unity of opposites...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...