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| Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera |
THE OTHER ACCIDENT
by Frida Kahlo
I suffered two grave accidents in my life. The other accident is Diego.
She and the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera first met when she was 15, and a student at a college where Diego was commissioned to paint a mural. So badly behaved were Frida and her gang that the previous muralists had armed themselves with pistols to deal with the kids. After meeting again in 1928, they married the following year, and she yearned for a child with him. Although she became pregnant several times, she had two terminations for medical reasons and one miscarriage. Her pelvis, it seems, had been too badly damaged to support a baby. Her painting Henry Ford Hospital depicts the artist, naked and alone on blood-soaked sheets, surrounded by a barren landscape that echoes her own barrenness. “Never before,” said Diego, “has a woman put such agonized poetry on canvas.”
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