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...Often Kahlo (Helen Schneider) is painted as a cardboard caricature in order to better serve narrow agendas: agonizingly disabled, Mexican, communist, bisexual, a woman oppressed by a famous painter husband. Frida expertly avoids exploiting the politically correct factors that have posthumously made Frida Kahlo a pop culture celebrity...
...production does not tear down Diego Rivera (William Rhodes) to prop up Frida Kahlo, nor does it make oppression center stage. In life, Kahlo was above that, and this production of her life also rises above simplistic analyses...
...jury is still out on whether Diego Rivera stifled Kahlo's work--often it seems like it was Frida herself who took her work the least seriously, who treated it the most frivolously...
...Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon Around aBomb--March 13-18, 7:10 and 8:25 p.m. Saturdayand Sunday matinee...
...seen in the U.S. in 1986. As for Orozco and Siqueiros, their work has suffered the fate of much propaganda art. It tends to look coarse and melodramatic, even on the small scale of the easel painting. One much prefers the fierce, narcissistic and mysteriously sweet images of Frida Kahlo, which anchor the end of the exhibition...