Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo DVD . Two great documentaries in one DVD. The marriage of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous alliances between artists. It is a well-known fact that they had a passionate and stormy relationship, filled with great love and also betrayals. They both had incredible talents and vision, but Diego's work would be more public and monumental, whereas Frida's was more personal and intimate in scale.

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• Diego Rivera - From Cubist to Mexican Muralist - muralist painter, was one of the greatest artists in the XXth century. Born in Guanajuato Mexico, in 1892 he moved to Mexico City with his family. He studied in the San Carlos Academy and in the carving workshop of artist José Guadalupe Posada, whose influence was decisive.
  Later in Paris, he received the influence of post-modernism and cubism, the mediums in which he expressed himself with ease. Diego Rivera with the use of classicist, simplified and colorful painting recovered the pre-columbian past catching the most significant moments in mexican history: the earth, the farmer, the laborer, the custumes and popular characters.
  Diego Rivera's legacy to modern mexican art was decisive in murals and canvas; he was a revolutionary painter looking to take art to the big public, to streets and buildings, managing a precise, direct, and realist style, full of social content.
  
  Here you will see his mastery of Mural Painting. His works and influence is imesurable.
  
  
  
• Frida Kahlo - A tragic Life Frida's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. She gave her birth dates as July 7, 1910, but her birth certificate shows July 6, 1907. Frida was born an imaginative storyteller and this was one of many ways she rearranged the truth. Although she was spunky and courageous, Frida Kahlo lived a life of pain and suffering, mostly in the artistic shadow of her famous husband, Diego Rivera. Over the past several decades, Kahlo’s work has gained in appreciation in the art world where today she is considered one of the great masters of art in the twentieth century.
  
  She is certainly one of the greatest women artists, perhaps the greatest of all times. Her work has gained in stature and Rivera’s work has remained steady and today she is as famous or more so than Rivera.
  
  Kahlo’s work today is appreciated today for its originality, its surreal, dreamlike, and fantastical quality, expressed in a personal voice. She painted about her life, without sentimentality and censure. Her life was full of adventure, violence, suffering, death, and love; all which make for great storytelling and incredible painted images.
  
  Frida only had one exhibition in Mexico and it was in the spring of 1953. Frida's health was very bad at this time and doctors told her not to attend. Minutes after guests were allowed into the gallery, sirens were heard outside. The crowd went crazy for outside there was an ambulance accompanied by a motorcycle escort. Frida Kahlo was being carried from it into her exhibition on a hospital stretcher! The photographers and reporters were shocked. She was placed in her bed in the middle of the gallery. The mob of people went to greet her. Frida told jokes, entertained the crowd, sang, and drank the whole evening. The exhibition was an amazing success.
  
  During the same year as her exhibition, Frida had to have her right leg amputated below the knee due to a gangrene infection. This caused her to become deeply depressed and suicidal. On July 13, 1954, Frida died. No official autopsy was done but suicide was rumored. Her last words in her diary read "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".
  
  
  
  
  "The most unknown great masters of the 20th Century"

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