Which Mexican artist produced works entitled "The Broken Column" and "Diego and I"?
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artefacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
"The Broken Column" is an oil on masonite painting by Frida Kahlo, painted in 1944 shortly after she had had spinal surgery to correct on-going problems which had resulted from a serious traffic accident when the painter was eighteen years old.
"Diego and I" shows Frida's great anguish over Diego Rivera. When he had an affair with Maria Felix almost divorced Frida. Maria Felix was a beautiful film star and as well an intimate friend of Frida's. Even though Frida was trying to joke about this affair, as she always did with Rivera's other affairs, "Diego and I" shows that she was deeply hurt.
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