Diego et Frida
Автор:
Clezio Jean-Marie-Gustave Le, 308 стр., издатель:
"Gallimard, Editions", ISBN:
978-2-070-38944-5, 9782070389445
When Frida announced his intention to marry Diego Rivera, his father acid this comment: "It will be the wedding of an elephant and a dove." Everyone gets skeptical about the news of the marriage of the girl but turbulent poor health with the "genius" of the Mexican muralists, who twice his age, triple its weight, a reputation for "ogre" and seductive, this communist atheist who dares to paint the glory of Indian paintings where it encourages workers to take machetes and guns to throw down the demonic trinity of Mexico - the priest, the bourgeois, the man of law. Diego and Frida tells the story of an unusual couple. Story of their meeting, the past responsible for Diego and experience the pain and loneliness for Frida. Their faith in the revolution, Trotsky and their encounter with Breton, the American adventure and surprising fascination Henry Ford. Finally their role in the renewal of the art world. Strange love story, which is built and is expressed through painting, while Diego and Frida pursue a work at once dissimilar and complementary. Art and revolution are the only common points of these two beings who have explored all forms of unreason. Frida to Diego, a woman endowed with magic interview with her nurse and Indian, Frida, Diego is the child Almighty that his stomach could not bear. They therefore form a couple indestructible legendary, as perfect and contradictory duality Mexican original Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.