Communism and it influence on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
6-weeks | Available (Membership Required)
The love story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is fraught with drama. As prominent
artists of the 20th century, they held revolutionary ideas and united in an explosive,
passionate relationship mirrored in the turbulence going on around them and set
against the backdrop of a country reshaping its identity, a World War and political
upheaval. Passionate about the reconstruction of the country’s identity after the
Mexican Revolution, they met in 1928 through the Mexican Communist Party. We will look
at how communism influenced their lives, their lovers and their work in Mexico, the US
and Europe.
Alexandra Baer
Alexandra Baer is an artist and art history major living in New Paltz. She is of Mexican/German origin, much like Frida Kahlo. In the summers, she studied in Mexico City at the same art academy at which Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo had studied decades earlier, the Academia San Carlos. Her knowledge of Mexican art and its history comes from her interest in the lives of artists who were influenced by both communism and socialism in the early half of the 20th century.