Mexican musicians Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera painted one another for 25 years: those ongoing works provide us with an understanding of their relationship, argues Kelly Grovier.
- By Kelly Grovier
4 2017 december
Noticed side-by-side in photographs, they hit a pose that is almost comic their girth dwarfing her petite frame. Them‘the elephant’ and ‘the dove’ when they married, her parents called. He was the older, celebrated master of frescoes whom helped to revive an ancient Mayan tradition that is mural and offered a vivid artistic sound to native Mexican labourers seeking social equality after centuries of colonial oppression. (more…)