In 1939 Frida divorced Diego, which led to her producing one of her most famous pictures.
rida Kahlo’s story is well known. There’s the childhood polio. The elite female student at a predominantly male school. The bus crash at eighteen that crushed her and her ambition to become a doctor. The monobrow. The early marriage to Diego Rivera, a fellow Mexican artist and revolutionary twenty years her senior. His affairs. Her affairs, including a brief fling with Leon Trotsky. Membership of the Mexican Communist Party. Her flirtation with Surrealism. Her death at forty-seven.
If there was any upside to that life-changing collision, it was the insight and time for observation with which it left her. In photographs subsequently taken by lovers as well as the dozens of self-portraits she produced throughout her adult life, you can see Frida seeing. The expressionless face, the red lips, the dark hair, the faint mustache – and those critical eyes.
The constant discomfort she felt gave her access to the extra-sensory faculties needed to reveal the daily agonies and ecstasies taking place within her cherished country. You can’t paint hurt without hurting. Frida Kahlo without pain is the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger or a Margarita without tequila. The wounds and wonders she described in paint made plain her feelings, her heart pounding with joy one minute and broken in despair the next.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlotalk together in the garden, near the porch of Kahlo's home in Mexico City, Mexico in 1937.Frida’s work became fiercer and franker. The humor she once sneaked into her pieces evaporated.
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