![]() ![]() ![]() My body is filled with you for days and days. Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. Not surprisingly, she was capable of penning a pretty spicy love letter herself, and the majority were aimed at her husband: She was characteristically avid in letters and diary entries, detailing her physical attraction to every aspect of Rivera’s body, including his giant belly “drawn tight and smooth as a sphere.” Ditto her obsession with his many conquests. Self-examination was central to her work. Tempting as it might be to view the relationship with 2020 goggles, it would be a disservice to Kahlo’s sense of her own narrative. One thing that’s taken for granted is Kahlo’s passion for Rivera, whom she met as girl of 15. The couple’s history of extramarital relations (including Rivera’s dalliance with Kahlo’s sister, Christina) weren’t exactly secret, and both of the players had left the building. During renovations to turn the couple’s home into a museum, she had a peek and decided the lipstick-imprinted love letters from some famous men Frida had bedded could damage Rivera’s reputation. These treasures might have come to light earlier save for a judgment call on the part of Dolores Olmedo, Rivera’s patron, former model, and friend. Her prosthetic leg, shod in an eye-catching red boot was given a place of honor in an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum., His final painting, The Watermelons, a very Mexican subject that’s also a tribute to Kahlo’s last work, Viva La Vida…Īnd a locked bathroom in which he decreed 6,000 photographs, 300 of Kahlo’s garments and personal items, and 12,000 documents were to be housed until 15 years after his death.Īmong the many revelations when this chamber was belatedly unsealed in 2004, her clothing caused the biggest stir, particularly the ways in which the colorful garments were adapted to and informed by her physical disabilities. Other creative expressions of the grief that dogged him til his own death, three years later: Rivera lies in the Panteón Civil de Dolores. Kahlo’s remains were placed in Mexico City’s Rotunda of Illustrious Men, and have since been transferred to their home, now the Museo Frida Kahlo. The Mexican government opted not to honor his express wish that their ashes should be co-mingled upon his death. Painter Diego Rivera set the bar awfully high for other lovers when he-allegedly-ate a handful of his ex-wife Frida Kahlo’s cremains, fresh from the oven. ![]()
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