It is a visual diary of her life and feelings.

Both of them also shared a great commitment to Mexico, to the Communist Party, and had great loyalties to the ordinary working people of Mexico.įrida's artwork is intensely personal. Under the emotional ructions there was however a deep love and friendship between them, and a huge respect for one another's work as artists. Both of them took lots of lovers, yet both were intensely jealous of one another's philandering. Her love affair and two marriages with Diego Rivera were tempestuous. She had two gold incisors and when she was all gussied up she would take off the plain gold caps, and put on gold caps with rose diamonds in front, so that her smile really sparkled.' She had the Byzantine opulence of the Empress Theodora, a combination of barbarism and elegance. The art historian Parker Lesley described her thus: 'Everyone stared at Frida, who wore her Tehuana dress and all Diego's gold jewellery, and clanked like a knight in armour. įrida was a gargantuan and lion-hearted character, and she strode the world with flamboyant and anarchic exuberance. On top of this, the book also contains a formidable and passionate love story, and an inspiring story about her battles against terrible physical injuries. and most of all - vast creativity and artistic talent. Vast beauty, intelligence, commitments, loyalties. Surely no-one can read this superb biography without being spun head over heels.

I am a little in love with Frida Kahlo, or perhaps I should say intensely so.

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