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Frida Kahlo: Mexican Catholics
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Kahlo and Rivera showed little remorse for Trotsky's fate, both seeking readmission to the Stalinist Mexican Communist Party. Kahlo, dutifully denouncing Trotskyism and spicing her repentance by slandering Trotsky as a coward and a thief, was readmitted in 1948.
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[I]t was the vibrant kitchen that was clearly Frida's bailiwick, for it was here that Rivera's daughter Lupe has recalled finding Frida when she and her sister Ruth came to live at the Casa Azul in 1942. In this prototypical Mexicanidad kitchen, huge earthenware pots stand guard on blue and yellow tiled countertops and walls are affixed with tiny clay pots spelling the names "Frida" and "Diego" next to a pair of doves tying a lover's knot.
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If you saw the movie about Frida starring the unbelievable beautiful Mexican actress, Salma Hayak, you would know that this portrait was painted by Frida while she was in bed recovering from her tragic streetcar accident. There is ... another element of tragedy and sadness connected with this self-portrait. Frida painted this for her lover, whom she was undoubtedly hoping would marry her. But, seeing her in this condition, he instead abandoned her.
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