Since hit by a car at the age of eighteen, the late female Mexican painter Frida Kahlo had to frequnt the hospital. Great physical suffering raised her artistic creation and her thought of life to a higher level. At her Centenary Celebration, the correspondance between Kahlo and his personal doctore had been bound into a book, in which the pain of reproductive failure born by Frida was made public for the first time!
Regret for her reproductive failure
Since the car accident, Frida had undergone thirty-three operations and her most life is sustained by intubatton. Her dogged vitality created her first myth while her great talent in drawing made her one of the world’s greatest painters and built up her second legend. Her third myth was her husband Diego Rivera, who was one of the three masters of Mexico’s mural. In 1929, the twenty-two-year-old Frida married the fourty-two-year-old Rivera. No matter how many legends she had created, hospital was still frequented by her. In a hospital of San Francisco did she come across docter Leo Airosai, who had become her close friend. Such an issue of reproductive failure caused by the car accident constantly haunted her. Her first abortion made her aware of the fact that her body cannot handle the pressure of pregnancy. The following two abortion made her accept such a fact. She wrote to docter Leo, ” My dear docter, you cannot imagine how much I want to write to you for a long time. I’ve longed for a little Diego and weeped for serveral times. However, everything goes to the dogs, and I have no other choice but to bear such a fact.”
In some letters, there were detailed descriptions of the symptom at the initial period of her pregnancy, early abortion and the frequent severe pain of his back caused by the car accident in 1925. Isabel. Bolula, the one in charge of the restoration and collection of these letters, said, “Frida feels frustrated because she wanted a child but this dream cannot come true.”
Frida and her docter talked about everything under the sun, even including their views of the world and personal love life. In 1931, Frida said in her letter, “I did not draw patings and idled around the whole day long. I disliked the Upper Class in New York. At the sight of tens of thounds of poor people, I was furious about the weathy there. ”
Restoration of their marrige suggested by her doctor
In the love life between Frida and Rivera, Leo played a vital role. In 1937 when the two had divorced, they wanted to remarry each other. The letter from Leo lent credence to the restoration of their marriage. In Oct, 1940, he wrote to Frida and said, “Diego loves you very much, and you also love him. Of course, you know your husband better than I do. Except you, he also has two fondness: the one is drawing paintings, the other is women. He has never abiden by and will not obey monogamy.”
Following her doctor’s suggestions, Frida grew more and more confident and even said that she was jealous of Rivera’s ex-wife Guadeloupe. Mayun because she gave him two daughters. “Please don’t get mad at me after you have acknoledged my ideas. This morning when you invite me to the concert, I would have decided to go with you, but I cannot bear it and lose my desire to the concert when I know that Diego has invited Mayun’s friends. I would like to be frank with you, because I know you can understand me as well as my change of mind.” In 1940, Frida even sent his self-portrait to Leo and said, “dedicate my self-portrait and all my love to my dear doctor and my best friend Leo”.
The final mystery of Frida Kahlo unfolded
At the urging of Rivera, letters were locked in the cabinet at Rivera’s home in Mexico’s city. Rivera asked the keeper not to open it until fifteen years later. When Rivera passed away in 1957, one sponsor of Rivera hided these letters in the wall of his bathroom in order not to damage this couple’s image. Later, this apartment became a museum. In 2004 when the sponsor has died for a year, the museum unlocked the cabinet containing the letters.
At the fifty anniversary of Rivera’s death, her correspondances with docter Leo was made public and collected into a book. Here was the beginning of Rivera’s letters “my dearest doctor”, so the publisher named this book My Dearest Docter. Now, these letters are exhibited together with the other three thousand items of Rivera in Mexico.
