Word: kahlo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benevolent Boy Frog. Diego himself is a benevolent monster, six feet tall and weighing close to 250 pounds. No two people, seeing him for the first time, would be likely to describe him in the same way, but Rivera's wife, Surrealist Frida Kahlo, an accomplished painter in her own right, has pictured him as he seems to her. In a chapter written for a forthcoming book, Diego Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that...
When Rivera got home from Moscow he married Frida Kahlo, a pretty, sloe-eyed art student who had sworn to her schoolmates, at 13, that she would some day bear him a child (she never has, but Lupe had borne him two girls). Diego and Frida moved into her sparkling Spanish-colonial home in Coyoacan (a Mexico City suburb). There, in the course of time, came many old and new friends of Diego. One of them, after Diego soured on Stalin, was Leon Trotsky. For almost two years (1938-39), Trotsky lived as the Riveras' guest, writing his life...
...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...