Frida Kahlo, who painted mostly small ... run university and a more democratic national government. She joined the Communist party in part because of her friendship with the young Italian ...

Whatever else they were, her pride in being Mexican and her commitment to communism were functions of her drive not to let anything like that happen. No one would “factor out” Frida Kahlo.

70 years on from the death of Frida Kahlo, Carla Passino takes a look at the work and ... for the Louvre (now at the Musée National d’Art Moderne) 5. A staunch Communist, she became especially keen to ...