They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one.
An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. Constantly in the shadow of her husband, bearing his unfaithfulness and her jealousy, Frida exorcised the pain on canvas, and won progressively the public’s interest. On both continents, America and Europe, these commited artists proclaimed their freedom and left behind them the traces of their exceptional talent.
In this book, Gerry Souter brings together both biographies and underlines with passion the link which existed between the two greatest Mexican artists of the twentieth century.
Оглавление
Gerry Souter. Diego Rivera
Foreword
From Training to Mastership
His First Steps
Discovering Europe
¡ Vuelva a México! Homecoming
His New Exil to Europe or His Artistic Quest
The Eight Year Search – 1911–1919
The Revelation of Italian Frescos – 1920–1921
Between Painting and Politics
Mexican Muralists
Fame, Diego and Frida
A Communist Cheered by Americans
The Last Years or the Return to the Country
Back Home in Mexico
Adiós Frida, Vaya con Dios Adiós Diego, Vida larga al artista de la gente
Отрывок из книги
1. Diego Rivera, The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City, 1931.
