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Frida, a biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-54), is a mesmerizing story of radical art, romantic politics, bizarre loves and physical suffering that raises the question, Why hasn't someone told it all before? Part of the answer is that Kahlo was the wife of Diego Rivera, the muralist and cultural provocateur who overshadowed nearly everybody and everything he touched. He would, in fact, have dominated this book about his wife if Biographer and New York Art Critic Hayden Herrera had not put him in his place...
Rivera was both Kahlo's hero and her baby, a relationship that endured through their marriage, divorce, remarriage and intervening separations. The 300-lb. painter can be summed up in a series of lingering images: a robust hulk on a scaffold, applying bright Marxist idealizations to the walls of public buildings; a blustery reveler brandishing a revolver to ensure attention; a celebrated philanderer openly displaying his conquests; and a monumental infant seated in a bathtub full of floating toys while Frida lathers his plump breasts...
...untangle fact from fantasy. And yet the lies of this great, hulking 300 Ibs. of a man, believes Wolfe, are the key to his life and art. His dreams were more real to him than reality, and to him, all ideas were playthings. Said his third wife, Frida Kahlo: "He never told a lie that was stupid or banal...
...Frida Kahlo has a lot of painful memories to wash away. She was just 16 when she was smashed up in a bus accident. She spent a year in a cast, countless months in bed at home. To relieve the boredom, she started painting...
After seeing her show last week, Mexico could understand Frida Kahlo's hard reality. And it is getting even harder. Recently, her condition has been getting worse; friends who remember her as a plump, vigorous woman are shocked by her haggard appearance. She cannot stand for more than ten minutes at a time now, and there is a threat of gangrene in one foot. But each day, Frida Kahlo still struggles to her chair to paint-even if only for a short while. "I am not sick," she says. "I am broken. But I am happy to be alive...