The fascination of the world with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was the famous Master of Fresco about the indigenous peoples of Mexico and his political party, while Frida Kahlo was responsible for the most iconic self-portraits with religious symbols and the juxtaposition of his German and Mexican lineage. Together, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are still famous artists and the two greatest artists of the twentieth century. Their lives before fame were simple. Rivera had a twin brother, his parents were middle -class, and was born in Mexico City in 1957, in terms of Kahlo, he had three sisters, two sisters, her family had financial problems during the Mexican revolution, she had polio and polio andHe suffered from Espina Bifida and was born in Coyoacán, a town outside of Mexico City.
The reason why Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are the most famous artists of their time and of today is a simple and direct reason: the art they made is an intergenerational art, an art that continually talks with people of different generations. In the current times, there is the Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum, the house that used to live with all the details of Rivera and Kahlo’s marriage and some works were still in Progreso. The marriage was full of controversies and dramas, such as when there was suspicion of a betrayal of Rivera with the newest sister of Frida Kahlo or when there was the betrayal of Frida Kahlo with Leon Trotsky. By this I mean that the fascination with Rivera and Kahlo is because they are normal people and it is possible to establish an empathic relationship with them. There are still exhibitions about the art of Rivera and Kahlo on today. According to my point of view, the exhibition shows the impact of the works of Rivera and Kahlo to the current times, such as Diego López Rivera, the producer and general coordinator of the exhibition, ¨ In the works we find that there are many iconic elements of the cityNorth American that will then be retaken by the pop art to capture what is its already plastic and content speech. ¨, therefore, they have impacted the entire world.
Finally, there is another exhibition about Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Victoria and Alberto in London in 2018 and the exhibition curator, Circe Henestrosa, says that “[Frida Kahlo] was advanced for his time. The reason why it is so contemporary now is that it was already contemporary then, ”and I consider that the same phrase can be applied to Diego Rivera. Indeed, for causes of their ideas of social and communist detraction, portraits of their daily life and their marriage to Frida, Rivera and Kahlo are an individualistic couple.
Finally, the world continues fascinated with Rivera and Kahlo for countless reasons. The evidence is simple, such as when in 2018, Rivera’s painting was sold for $ 9.76 million, and the film, Frida, in 2002 that I win two Oscar.
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