Frida Kahlo: Biography and Art: Between Passions, Politics, and the Power of Painting (Part 2)

In 1928, her life took a new turn. Upon entering the Communist Party, she met the famous muralist Diego Rivera, fell in love, and after a year of living together, they got married.

Diego was 21 years older and had many more pounds than Frida, so her family compared their union to that of an elephant and a dove.

Rivera was a socialist, a painter of great influence in the 20th century, and was part of the muralist movement, which proposed a more accessible art.

Despite many fights, betrayals, and scandals, Diego was Frida's great love and the one responsible for revealing her as an artist.

In 1929, Frida sold her first painting, in which she portrayed two women, Salvadora y Herminia, who posed for the artist in her house in Coyoacán.

In this painting, the first thing we see is a composition with six characters: from left to right, there is a housewife with her shopping basket, a worker, a native mother with bare feet feeding a baby, a child, a bourgeois with a sack of gold, and finally, a young woman who seems to be the artist.

Some scholars claim that in the accident, a man in a blue overalls removed the railing, saving Frida's life, while the gold dust that a 'gringo' brought with him spread over the artist's naked and bleeding body.

In the same year, in 1929, Frida tried several times to get pregnant, but due to the accident, she couldn't hold the child in her womb.

With the death of her father Guillermo Kahlo in 1941, the couple decides to live in the house that was her father's, the "Blue House". Today it is the artist's museum, where it houses works, clothes, and all her belongings.

To understand the rest of this journey, continue to our next article: Frida Kahlo: Biography and Art: The Immortal Legacy of a Soul Through Pain and Color (Part 3).