How Did Frida Kahlo Lose Her Marriage With Diego Rivera

The documentary talked about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo who was best known for her unique series of self-portraits. I knew about her artwork and was quite amazed by her way of portraying self-portraits in an extraordinary expression before I watched this documentary. After watching the video, I understand more about the reasons why her painting was done this way. Her artworks brought the pieces of her life stories to the audience. Her marriage with Diego Rivera contributes the later works of her. It was the main influence of her life. If she did not meet Diego Rivera, we would probably see a total Frida Kahlo. The complicated relationship from inability of reproduction, Diego’s unfaithfulness, Kahlo’s affairs, divorce to remarriage created the Kahlo who was physically and emotionally torn. She expressed her life problems in her paintings, her tragic and exotic figures brand her personal art career.
It portrayed the painful personal of Kahlo that reflected in the emotional disorder of her artwork. Kahlo wanted a child very much, her nightmares and thoughts about fertility was shown. The fertility dream is the part which I like most about the documentary. It portrays a woman’s struggle and pain for losing the ability to have a baby, the heart wrenching when you wish for a child of you and your loves one but you have lost the reproductive system ability. The artwork Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed) provokes the emotions in us. I would also think that this painting attract the attention the issue on fertility, at the same time encourage the public to take care of their reproductive