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> “As we now know that Moscow did not really esteem the gift of Frida Kahlo’s painting, and found it not worth exhibiting and too expensive to transport,” Art
by rdtsc 2y ago
> “As we now know that Moscow did not really esteem the gift of Frida Kahlo’s painting, and found it not worth exhibiting and too expensive to transport,”
Art was extremely political. The Soviets had a robust censorship system about what was to become public art, put in the museum, shown on TV or published in books.
That style of painting would have been considered garish, ugly and decadent. And most of all, if capitalists produced it, enjoyed it or praised it, it became even more unacceptable.
- defrost 2y ago> And most of all, if capitalists produced it .. Probably worth mentioning that both Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera were well known members of the Mexican Communist Party and worked together and seperately on Revolutionary murals etc.
- rdtsc 2y agoShe was a friend of Trotsky who was hated enough that they sent an assassin to kill him. And while Frida and her circle were communists, Mexico wasn’t and American “imperialists” seemed to be appreciating the style, which made it even more unpalatable.