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FRIDA'S FIESTAS -- RECIPES AND REMINISCENCES OF LIFE WITH FRIDA KAHLO |
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EPILOGUE
Naturaleza Viva, 1952 In this ambience of magic and ritual Frida lived for many years, but due to the accident of 1925 and the many health problems that resulted little by little she became less aBle to entertain guests. Nevertheless, her way of life was always the same. The time I lived at the Blue House passed; but as a consequence of my own maturation -- finishing my university degree, marriages, caring for my children -- visits to Coyoacan continued to be regular and frequent. Any encounter started stories and conversations just where we had left them. Frida's world was always a ritual. Because of the demands of her egocentric personality she played both icon and devotee. Her clothes created the Frida Kahlo style; nobody had similar jewelry: what my father gave her was always unique; only Frida and the women of Oaxaca wore their hair in that style. For still life paintings, Frida selected her favorite flowers and fruits; for portraits, her best friends; and her sorrows and thoughts were interpreted in small tableaux. The greatest part of Frida's art was dedicated to self-portraits. With her own image in a mirror Frida painted ritualized icons surrounded by magic. With the purpose of offering my readers a different aspect of Frida's way of life, the joyous one, in which we the participants, including my father Diego Rivera, were involved, I write this book. Rio Caliente, Jalisco
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