Tuesday, December 11, 2007

50th Anniversary of Diego Rivera's Death

According to the Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum website 24 November 2007 was the 50th anniversary of Diego Rivera's death. The museum has a fantastic Adobe Flash video of Frida and Diego on its homepage.

Both Frida and Diego's last paintings are of watermelons. It is heartbreaking to see the images side by side.



Frida Kahlo, Sandías con leyenda: Viva la vida”(Watermelons with legend: The life lives), 1954







Diego Rivera, Watermelons, 1957

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