Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on Mexico's Diego Rivera, they asked the artist if he would like to do his own cover portrait. As a result, a new self-portrait of Rivera, drawn to TIME'S specifications, appears on this week's cover-the first time that a cover subject has done his own portrait for TIME...
...mountainous form has always been a cynosure of neighboring eyes, and even among Mexico City's easygoing artists he is notorious for his good-neighbor policy, but Frida maintains a dignified silence about the women who have thronged his life. "Probably people expect of me a very personal portrait," she explains, " 'feminine,' anecdotal, diverting, full of complaints and gossip . . . Perhaps they expect to hear 'laments of 'all that has been suffered' living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the banks of a river suffer for letting the water...
Rivera's latest mural, which was unveiled last summer in Mexico City's new Del Prado Hotel, made history too (TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...
Cannon in the Dining Room. Catholic students raided the hotel, scratched out the brief blasphemy and mutilated Rivera's self-portrait as well. The hotel management hastily boarded up the whole thing.* Today, customers in the Del Prado's wine-carpeted dining room nibble their canard faisandé before a decorous red screen, on the other side of which Rivera's painting stands like a hidden cannon...
...handsomest of them all was still doing fine. Mamsir Kiut was a boy of 17 when Napoleon marched on Moscow. In the village of Kindig, he took time off from tending his chickens and pruning his vines, to pose in turban-like bashlyk for a 154th birthday portrait...