Hello and welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve and part two of The Nervie Traveler.

On day three, we went to the Frida Kalo Museum, which is actually the house, which is sort of more like a compound in which

she lived and worked with her husband, Diego Rivera.

Now, Frida was a tormented woman.

She had been sickly as a child, and she was a a true artist and she fell in love with Diego Rivera, who was already a famous artist revered. She was much younger. He was married. I believe she was like his mistress. They wound up getting married. Diego left his wife.

They wound up getting married.

But Diego was forever cheating on Frida.

And one of the heartbreaks of Frida's life, well, we didn't really even realize this until

again, this is where art just like blows your effing mind. So there's this one portrait in the museum.

It's an oil painting rather.

I believe it's an oil painting that Frida made.

And at first, we both assumed that the central figure in the painting of a woman on a bed,

on a hospital bed who had just given birth,

must have been Frida and she must have had a miscarriage.

And then we were told, no, no, no, that was one of Diego's other women who had his baby.

And Frida painted her.

And then there's other stuff going on in the in the background of that

portrait. It's smaller. And so it's made to feel smaller, like not as important. And it's

Frida on an operating table being worked on. And the scale, the proportion, proportion the colors who she chose to foreground the

subject matter all of it is just such a window into this woman's psyche and you know she had had

abortions that left her unable to do the one thing she wanted to do which was have diego's baby

and it's all over her

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