A very weird thing but once I was in a situation where I was able to stare in person for hours and hours daily at a very large Diego Mural for hours over the course of about 2 months. Very fascinating stuff but that mural left no doubt that Diego Rivera was a full on Communist.
Mexican historian Juan Miguel Zunzunegi has accused Diego Rivera of distorting history in his murals in a way to make Mexicans ashamed of their Spanish heritage. Namely about Cortez and the Aztecs. The fact was that most of the native peoples in that area were horribly oppressed by the Aztecs (like who enjoys getting their hearts cut out of their chests while alive) and looked upon Cortez as their savior and served as his allies against the oppressive Aztecs.
I always thought Kahlo was a Trotskyite, but as you suggest she might have been a honey pot double agent--a very strange form of honey, to be sure, not one that even Swalwell would hit. She was just old enough to avoid Maoism and Castroism.
Despite knowing his communist background, the Rockefeller family were patrons of the arts so they hired Diego Rivera to create murals for the inside of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s. Rivera worked in secrecy and then the murals were unveiled which showed people who looked an awful lot like leading members of the Rockefeller family beating and cheating workers. Oddly, Rivera’s mural was wiped out before it ever became public. Kahlo, another deep Red, was hired by a wealthy family whose daughter jumped out a window when she was rejected by a married FDR aide. Kahlo unveiled the painting, which showed this young lady flying out the window of a skyscraper. You cannot trust communists.
If you could work "hours" in there just one more time you might win a monkey puppet.
The Obamas are heavily invested in Netflix.
The primary mission of Netflix is DEI-WOKE ideology.
The secondary focus is special-effects “ entertainment “.
Is it true Frida slept with a portrait of Stalin next to her bed?
Rivera’s paintings tend to be in the stolid “Social Realism” style that only Stalin could love. Though his depiction of the human form owes much to The Family Circus cartoons (or vice versa), his work is at least consistent with his politics.
How to reconcile Kahlo’s ardent communism with her work, mostly self-portraits plus some depictions of witchcraft and magic, all of it idiosyncratic, is a poser. It’s interesting how different the two painters were.
Why?! Their lives were already covered in the movie Frida. And the movie made no attempt to hide the fact that they were rabid commies. On a plus side, Salma Hayek gets nekkid too.
Rivera was twice her age and often beat her to a pulp.