A daughter of Diego Rivera criticized the Mexican art legend`s famous third wife, Frida Kahlo, as a subpar painter whose work became pricey thanks to pop star Madonna`s interest in it.
In a Costa Rican newspaper interview, Guadalupe Rivera, a Mexican writer and art historian, criticized Kahlo`s penchant for self-portraits.
"During her life, she painted some 50 paintings, and the theme was her own image," Rivera told La Nacion newspaper in an article published Thursday. "They were repetitive; copies of one another."
"She was a perfectionist. When she was working on a painting, it would take her a long time and my father would help her so that she would finish them and sell them," she said. "I lived through this, that`s why I say it."
Rivera, who was in San Jose to host a conference on her father`s art at the Mexico Institute, also sought to dispel her father`s image as an abusive husband to Kahlo, who died in 1954 at age 47.
"It has been said that my father made Frida suffer and I can tell you that ... Frida made my father suffer. Society today, in my opinion, is completely decadent and needs a decadent icon. Frida is the symbol of this decadence," she said.
The daughter of Diego Rivera`s second wife Lupe Marin also said Kahlo`s art became a top sell after Madonna bought her paintings and showed interest in making a movie about her life.
"It was enough of an actress to be interested in Frida`s work for her paintings to reach the prices that they have now reached," Rivera said.
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