Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Exhibit

 Monday, I went to the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Exhibit at Musée de l'Orangerie.  Photos were forbidden inside the exhibit.
For more about Frida Kahlo click here.  
For more about Diego Rivera click here.

I read (and did not love) The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.  Part of the book talks about how Trotsky came to Mexico and was good friends with Kahlo and Rivera.  Kingsolver touches on some of the more dramatic parts of Kahlo's and Rivera's lives in her book.  Diego was twenty years Frida's senior.  They were both ardent communists and had a passionate and often turbulent relationship.  They were once divorced for one year.

Her friends called them the elephant and the dove.

 Musée de l'Orangerie is associated with and across the Seine from the Musée D'Orsay.  Its permanent collection includes two oval rooms with enormous waterlily paintings by Monet.  He worked on these for the last few years of his life, and they were painted to fit in this space.  Downstairs houses mostly impressionist and post-impressionist paintings.  It is inside of the Tuileries gardens.

 Every November the Ferris wheel goes up.

 Jeanne D'Arc

Random sign