Frida Kahlo ~ A Few Little Pricks, 1935A Few Little Pricks is based on a lurid murder that appe
Frida Kahlo ~ A Few Little Pricks, 1935A Few Little Pricks is based on a lurid murder that appeared in the local newspapers where Frida Kahlo lived at the time. A man stabbed his wife repeatedly in a frenzy of jealous rage and defended his act in court with the words, “But it was just a few little pricks!”. Kahlo shows the murderer standing calmly in the center of the picture above the corpse of his murdered wife. The painting seems filled with blood, on the bed, on the floor, on the murderer’s cloths, even on the frame of the painting. Black and white doves hold up a banderole with the murderer’s excuse. The pathetic quality of the excuse stands in stark contrast to the cold violence of the murder scene before us.Kahlo painted this during a very turbulent period in her marriage to Diego Rivera. Neither of them were models of faithful spouses. Both Diego and Frida had affairs and they both knew about it. Frida had affairs with men and women. Diego tolerated her affairs with women, but exploded into rage when he found out about her affairs with men. She suffered his affairs mostly in silence. Frida ended that stoic silence when she found out that Diego was involved with her younger sister Cristina. Kahlo moved out, and by 1939, the two artists were divorced. -- source link
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