Talk about a tortured artist
Photo: Nickolas Muray, 1939; Rochester (NY),
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
An international icon and a cult favourite of millions worldwide,
she led a fascinating and tragic life, contracting Polio at an
early age and later being impaled by a metal rod while in
a bus accident.
The paintings are very personal, and the results are mostly
primitive and surrealistic. Although married to the great
Mexican painter Diego Rivera, she had numerous affairs with
men and women, many of them famous.
Leon Trotsky while in exile was a guest in her home, and
Picasso stated that she was ''almost as good" a painter as he was !
In 2002 Salma Hayek portrayed her in the film 'Frida' but the
earlier film version starring Ofelia Medina is the one I would
recommend viewing ( only on VHS ? ).
This unibrowed, mustachioed bisexual daughter of a
German-Jewish father and a Mexican mother was constantly on
the pain-killer Demerol, alcohol, and other drugs.
There's an exhausting set of Frida links displayed at
http://members.aol.com/fridanet/kahlo.htm
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