Publications by tag: diego rivera

What does the handwriting tell about your favorite artist? No doubt, the artistic scrawls of figures like those of Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo are particularly ripe for amusing analysis. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the page. Free-spirited scribbled letters trip over each other, and distinctive…

Viewers are always keen to look behind the scenes to see the magic of creating a masterpiece. Some see the romantic appeal in strict order, others – in creative chaos, yet others – in comfort and serenity. Arthive collected images of workshops and studios of 44 famous artists. Choose the interior that speaks to you and write about it in the comments. Tell us what your creative atmosphere is and…

A lot of graffiti left streets and moved to galleries long ago; that is a victory and tragedy of the street painters. They wanted to become free from the museum frameworks, though, their artworks were cut from walls and sold for  millions of dollars.

The secret room has been locked for half a century. Following Frida’s death in 1954, Diego Rivera confined all her personal belongings in the bathroom in their far-famed Casa Azul (‘Blue House’) to keep them away from the public until fifteen years after his death. He died three years later, but the rooms were only unlocked in 2004 when the Frida Kahlo Museum started making an illustrated…

Soap operas could borrow plenty of ideas from these epic sagas of love.

Romantic people would say that Diego and Frida were destined to live life together. However, this love story was very far from ideal. It was very manifold and comprised both unrestrained passion and all-consuming anger, tenderness and betrayal, devotion and jealousy, love and pain.