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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/440/442-08.jpg
Title	Diego and I.
Creator	Kahlo, Frida (Mexican painter, 1907-1954)
Date	1949
Cultural Context	Mexican North American Latin American
Style/Period	Modern (styles and periods)
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Self-portraits Portraits Double portraits Women Men (male humans) Husbands Wives Spouses Busts Heads (representations) Hairstyles Marriage Emotion Pain (sensation) Tear (secretion)
Subject	Women Men Spouses Couples Heads (Anatomy) Hairstyles Eyes Marriage Relations between the sexes Crying Mental states Pain
Description	"An obsessive self-portraitist, Kahlo reveled in her distinctive features - heavy, continuous eyebrows, piercing gaze, shadowy mustache, small but ripe, cherry-red mouth, massive dark hair braided like a halo in the traditional Mexican style. Moreover, she set them off with the most striking emblems of her suffering: a thorn necklace, nails worn like beauty spots, her torso tightly harnessed and opened to reveal a spine in the form of a broken column, wild spider monkeys embraced in lieu of the children she could never have. For the self-portrait seen here, Kahlo added the likeness of Rivera to her own forehead, cradled in those dramatic eyebrows, its presence (complete with a Cyclopean third eye at the center of his own brow) suggesting a manic preoccupation with her husband at a time when he had taken up with a well-known Mexican actress. Here the weeping artist's hair swirls about her neck like the dark sea in which she felt herself drowning." (Excerpt, p.261)
People Pictured	Kahlo, Frida Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
Material	Oil on Masonite Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Masonite (TM)
Measurements	11 5/8 x 8 13/16"
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Inscription	Upper right corner: México / Frida Kahlo / 1949 / Diego y y's [?]
Work Type	Paintings Oil paintings Self-portraits
Source	Hunter, Sam, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd rev ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. (p.260, fig.467).
Rights	Reproduced in Hunter courtesy Mary-Anne Martin/ Fine Art, New York; Hunter, Modern Art: Copyright © 2000 The Vendome Press, New York. Further, it should be noted that many of the art works reproduced in this volume are subject to claims of copyright in the United States and throughout the world, particularly for those artists represented by ADAGP and SPADEM, both located in Paris and exclusively represented in the United States by Artists Rights Society, New York. For other artists, mainly American, the copyright agent is VAGA, New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 442-08.jpg
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