I just realized something,
Jan. 25th, 2007 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaMy two favourite artists were bisexual, feminist, controversial women. Huh.
And despite being very different in culture, politics and art, there are more similarities than differences between them.
I mean they both pushed the envelope of their respective arts at the time, both had extra-marital affairs with women (they remained married to their husbands until the end of their lives, though Frida divorced Diego Rivera once, but they remarried). They both had extremely turbulent, hard lives, dealing with many health (mental and physical) issues, until they both died at a young age.
Both at the end of their lives, seemed happy to leave this world on their own terms (Woolf committed suicide, Kahlo gave in to her bodies demands).
Death and metamorphoses is apparent in their work and both very conscious of the fact that they were not as society wanted them to be.
It's easy to see why I love them.
And despite being very different in culture, politics and art, there are more similarities than differences between them.
I mean they both pushed the envelope of their respective arts at the time, both had extra-marital affairs with women (they remained married to their husbands until the end of their lives, though Frida divorced Diego Rivera once, but they remarried). They both had extremely turbulent, hard lives, dealing with many health (mental and physical) issues, until they both died at a young age.
Both at the end of their lives, seemed happy to leave this world on their own terms (Woolf committed suicide, Kahlo gave in to her bodies demands).
Death and metamorphoses is apparent in their work and both very conscious of the fact that they were not as society wanted them to be.
It's easy to see why I love them.
