For hasspanic/mexicans... who is Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?

Question

Pleez tell me with your heart :P

Answer 1

Frida Kahlo was an artist, severely disabled. Was married to Diego Rivera. I'm not Hispanic, I'm Hungarian, Kahlo is a Hungarian name, I think her dad was from Hungary.

Answer 2

"In 1953, when Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1957) had her first solo exhibition in Mexico (the only one held in her native country during her lifetime), a local critic wrote: 'It is impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person. Her paintings are her biography.' This observation serves to explain both why her work is so different from that of her contemporaries, the Mexican Muralists, and why she has since become a feminist icon.
"Kahlo was born in Mexico City in 1907, the third daughter of Guillermo and Matilda Kahlo. Her father was a photographer of Hungarian Jewish descent, who had been born in Germany; her mother was Spanish and Native American. Her life was to be a long series of physical traumas, and the first of these came early. At the age of six she was stricken with polio, which left her with a limp. In childhood, she was nevertheless a fearless tomboy, and this made Frida her father's favourite. He had advanced ideas about her education, and in 1922 she entered the Preparatoria (National Preparatory School), the most prestigious educational institution in Mexico, which had only just begun to admit girls. She was one of only thirty-five girls out of two thousand students.

"It was there that she met her husband-to-be, Diego Rivera, who had recently returned home from France, and who had been commissioned to paint a mural there. Kahlo was attracted to him, and not knowing quite how to deal with the emotions she felt, expressed them by teasing him, playing practical jokes, and by trying to excite the jealousy of the painter's wife, Lupe Marin.

Answer 3

After her death her body lay in state In The " Museum of Art" and drapped with the flag of the USSR. She was an active Communist..She was involved in a tram car accidend and a steel rod penetrated her body making child bearing virtually impossible hence she had to have a number of abortions.
For a while she had an actve lesbian affair with a Mexican actress . The name Katy Jurado comes to mind but I'm not sure.

Answer 4

they were both wonderful artists. you do not need to be Hispanic or Mexican to know that.

see links below from artchive.com.

understanding the artist's life will lead to explanations of their art.