Hello everyone & welcome back to the story of Frida! if you missed part one you can check it out right here> Part one
The desire to have children falls apart
Because of the accident where she broke her pelvis, there was no way she could carry her child full term. She got pregnant but it sadly ended in a painful miscarriage.
This too was a experience for Frida to paint about. In 1928, Kahlo became a member of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM). In the 20s and 30s, the party was torn apart by internal strife, which led, among other things, to the expulsion of the painting couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo because they had given shelter to Leon Trotsky, who had fled to Mexico.
On August 21, 1929, she married Diego Rivera, 21 years older than she was, also a communist and at that time already a famous muralist. His ex-wife, Lupe Marin, tried to disrupt the wedding party. Kahlo's sister Cristina confessed in the summer of 1934 that she had an affair with Diego Rivera. Kahlo then left Diego, but the couple remarried after a fierce battle on December 8, 1940. In 1930, she lost her unborn child in Detroit, where Diego painted a fresco for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Her mother died in September.
In the summer of 1932 she would have a second miscarriage. Kahlo and Rivera had frequent extramarital affairs; Kahlo with both men and women. Among her lovers were the Japanese-American landscape artist Isamu Noguchi, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who fled from the Soviet Union to Mexico in 1937, and the Hungarian-New York photographer Nickolas Muray (1892-1965), who took a series of impressive photographs of her.
Kahlo remained politically active; a few weeks before her death, she took part in a demonstration against U.S. interference in Guatemala. Kahlo died in 1954, a week after her 47th birthday. She left a note that read "I hope the end is happy and hope never to return"
I think we all can say that Frida is a true inspiration to us all and i am very happy that i know who she is and what she left behind on this earth. She also has amazing quotes, one in in particular:
Thank you for your time, i hope you have enjoyed this and the previous part of Frida, she spoke through her paintings and told us all a story without using too many words. There is a Frida in all of us, where we can show the world that is inside of us.
See you next time <3
