Diego and I (1949)
Frida painted this self-portrait during the period when her husband, Diego Rivera, was having a notorious affair with the film star Maria Felix, a relationship which provoked a public scandal.
The beautiful film star was also an intimate friend of Frida's as well, and though Frida pretended to joke about the affair, as she had about Rivera's other escapades, this painting reveals her true emotions. Wretched and weeping, she looks mournfully out at the viewer. Her long hair has wrapped itself around her neck suggesting that she feels strangled by the situation.
As in many of her other self-portraits, her hair again becomes the vehicle through which she expresses her emotional anguish. Frida's obsession with Diego is symbolized by the small bust of him on her forehead ... he being the obvious source of the distress reflected in this painting.
Also see http://tesserae.blogspot.com/2007/10/descriptive-paper.html and http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/frida-kahlo.
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