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The life of Frida while footprint "pain and passion", as indicated by the highlight of the book, can not leave indifferent the neophyte reader or the art lover.
Having contracted polio she suffered a foot ulcer and kept one leg shorter than the other; and she had to undergo several operations of the spine as a result of a bus accident, then at the end of his life the amputation of his right leg.
She married the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera, whose proposed book's cover - she titled "Self-Portrait or Tebuana Diego in my thoughts," or "Thinking of Diego" - testifies to his obsessive love for he fixed on his forehead and anchored forever in his thoughts and in his heart.
There is reason to be surprised by discovering the various paintings by the artist, including self-portraits dominate the representative in all his joys, sufferings or indignation. Deeply feminist, she attached herself to paint the difficulties related to the status of women; she wrote "Women were always underestimated. It was very hard to be a painter." She did not keep good memories of France, when she came to Paris in meeting the surrealists, particularly André Breton who broke his word by not finding him no gallery for exhibitions. Only Marcel Duchamp came to his aid. The Louvre however recognized the artist's genius and acquired one of his paintings.
Among his extraordinary works in their pain intensity, we note "reads the wheel," executed in 1932 after a miscarriage (p. 37). "Some small bites" (p. 39), after an infidelity of her husband with his own sister Cristina. "The Broken Column" p. 68, when she has to wear a brace for her spine.
When she did not turn on stage, she painted portraits of relatives (father, sister) where his delicate and precise talent is expressed, which highlights that the model has softer and more enigmatic, realism lively (and p. 63 "Dona Rosita Morillo" that evokes the painting of the Italian Renaissance). The bottom of portraits, most often, a framework for a tangle of branches, flowers and leaves, which symbolize the mystery of life and of death. Sometimes it is a suicide: "Suicide of Dorothy Hale", representing the actress défenestrée a skyscraper in New York (p. 51).
Paintings on the ambivalent sexuality too - Frida also loved women and had many mistresses - and will include "Two Nudes in the Forest", p. 56, representing the painter with his mistress Dolores del Rio.
A woman with unusual fate, the paintings that never leave indifferent, especially when the artist looks at you and seems to ask you, with strange eyes protected by Jovian eyebrows that join to give it that unique look, especially only that it is a woman painter, which was elevated to a true genius of universal painting.
