How Did Frida Kahlo Influence Diego Rivera

Intro

Frida Kahlo is a world wide known Mexican Artist known for her paintings, Portraits, and especially self- portraits often of great pain and imagery. Her artwork is classified as surrealist and socialist, and on top of that Frida Kahlo was well known for her feminism, which her but also her art shows. Especially in a country where the percentage of women working is low, she was a role model for many because she showed independence and impowered other women in that time. Although Frida Kahlo dealt with many illnesses, accidents, and other tragic events, also Guillermo Kahlo, Alejandro Gomez and Diego Rivera influenced her and her artworks in a different way. Both her husband and her first love were famous and successful artists influencing her to learn new techniques and styles, and her father taught her the art

Diego Rivera was already a well known painter when they first met in 1922. The influence Rivera had on Frida’s art began fairly early, as she had a deep admiration for Diego, had cared very much for what he thought of her and her paintings, and what opinion he had on it. Similar to Alejandro Gomez, Diego Rivera was a politically interested man. He encouraged frida to grow more interest in communism, however most of Diego's work had communistic themes. Furthermore, Rivera influenced the techniques, concepts and contents of Frida's paintings by encouraging her to paint in a different style, portraying her Amerindian Roots (Herrera, Frida: A biography). There is a severe transition visible to us, there is a change in colors, and background in her paintings, for example her first self portrait, painted in the renessaincdé style, compared to her self portrait name “Time Flies” in which she is wearing mexican traditional clothing and amerindian jewellery. Rivera influenced her in a way in which she embraced the mexican heritage and