What a wonderful exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario of the art of Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera. Leave lots of time to read the posted commentaries and appreciate some of the details in the paintings.
The sections of intricate and political murals by Diego and his other paintings glowing with colour were wonderful.
Most affecting for me, however, were Frida's paintings. Many of her paintings depict the pain she suffered from an early accident which affected her health throughout her life, and her subsequent miscarriages.
Their's was a complicated relationship - hints of which are in many of the paintings.
Their story becomes real as you view the many photographs taken of them through the years, including those taken after death, in their caskets.
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