EMOTIONS: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

January 28 — May 22, 2005
Des Moines Art Center, Print Gallery

This exhibition consists of 12 chalk drawings on paper by Frida Kahlo and 10 oil on paper drawings by Diego Rivera. Commissioned in 1951 by Olga Campos, a friend of the artists, the works were created in response to a variety of human emotions such as love, hate, grief, and anger. Each painting presents simple, bold, colorful, and highly personal reflections. Lent by Jim and Patty Cownie, this exhibition is an extraordinary opportunity to view intimate expressions by these Mexican artists, two of modern art’s most unique practitioners. This exhibition was organized by Amy Worthen, curator of prints.

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EXHIBITION RELATED PROGRAMS

Gallery Talk
Sunday, March 6, 2 pm
Amy Worthen, curator of prints and Roberta Victor

Roberta Victor, art therapist and director of the art therapy certificate program at Grand View College, joins Amy Worthen for a gallery talk and discussion on Emotions: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

This program is open to the public. Refreshments will be served in the Art Center Restaurant.

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Lecture
Thursday, May 5, 6:30 pm
Hayden Herrera, author
Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Art

Art Historian Hayden Herrera wrote Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1883), the definitive book on the artist’s tumultuous life, and the one on which the 2002 film was based. Herrera has lectured widely, taught Latin American art at New York University, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. As well as numerous magazine articles, Herrera has also published books on Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky.

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Film
Frida, 2002
Sunday, May 1 1 pm
Julie Taymor, director
Rated R, 123 minutes
Levitt Auditorium

Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband, to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

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