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Frida to Diego: I Can’t Live, if Living is Without You!

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Cristina Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida's pet monkey, Fulang-Chang, Isamu Noguchi on June 1, 2009| 12 Comments »

As discussed in a previous post, “Frida Kahlo: A Few Small Nips,” Frida was devastated to learn of her husband Diego Rivera‘s affair with her younger sister Cristina. No one really knows exactly when Diego and Cristina began their affair, but, by early 1935, Frida had moved out of her San Angel house she shared with […]

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Frida’s First Bad Accident

Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged "Accident" by Frida Kahlo, "The Bus" by Frida Kahlo, Alejandro Gomez Arias, Alex Gomez Arias, biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo's bus accident on May 26, 2009| 59 Comments »

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) once said that she suffered two bad accidents in her life. The first one occurred on September 17, 1925. It would transform her life forever. Frida was only 18. It was a gray day. A light rain had just fallen. After spending the afternoon wandering among the street stalls of downtown […]

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Frida and the Fire Dogs

Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged Aztec dogs, biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of women, Diego, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and her Itzcuintli Dogs, itzcuintli dogs, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican hairless chihuahua, mr. xolotl, the Colima dog, the Earth (Mexico), The Love Embrace of the Universe, xolo dogs, xoloitzcuintli dogs on May 11, 2009| 3 Comments »

In the lower left of Frida Kahlo‘s painting, “The Love Embrace of the Universe” (above), a little dog is sound asleep in a huge hand. The dog is Frida Kahlo’s favorite pet dog, Mr. Xolotl. Mr. Xolotl (show-low -tul) was a xoloitxcuintli (show-low-eats-queen-tlee) dog. Frida had several of these unusual-looking dogs, a hairless breed with an ancestry […]

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Madame X-Rated

Posted in Dorothy Hale, John Singer Sargent, Madame X Dress, the, PEOPLE, tagged art history, French painting, Frida Kahlo: The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, Macame X by John Singer Sargent, Madame Gautreau, Madame Virginie Gautreau, Madame X Dress, the on July 13, 2009| 8 Comments »

In the Metropolitan Museum of New York hangs a seven-foot tall portrait of a rather pale woman in a black velvet evening dress held up by sparkly straps. “Madame X” was painted by the American society painter John Singer Sargent. The subject of the painting is Madame Virginie Gautreau, a professional beauty, who moved in […]

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Dorothy Hale and the Dymaxion Car

Posted in Amelia Earhart, Buckminster Fuller, Claire Boothe Luce, Dorothy Hale, Isamu Noguchi, PEOPLE, tagged Amelia Earhart, biographies of actresses, biographies of women, Buckminster Fuller, Chicago World's Fair 1933, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Hale, Isamu Noguchi, Leopold Stokowski, National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, the Dymaxion car on June 18, 2009| 8 Comments »

In 1934, the socialite and actress Dorothy Hale took a road trip through Connecticut with two old friends, writer Clare Boothe Luce and sculptor Isamu Noguchi. They drove in a special car Noguchi had designed with his drinking buddy, futuristic inventor Buckminster Fuller. The car was called the Dymaxion. The 20-foot long aluminum-bodied Dymaxion car caused a […]

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