Team Up: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

by Francesca Ferretti de Blonay, Tania Garcia (Illustrator)

Overview

Mexico, the 1920s. The revolution is over and the country is rebuilding itself bit by bit, with two painters helping this revival through art. Diego Rivera, an established artist known for his murals, meets Frida Kahlo, a rising star in the art world and it is love at first sight.
Their relationship is one of the greatest but most turbulent love affairs in art history. They painted each other, worked together and inspired each other for 25 years, and are probably the most legendary artistic couple of all time.
A brand new series, Creative Partners/Team Up, celebrating the most iconic and important collaborations in history.
From painters to singers, musicians, activists, athletes and trend setters, these books will show you how magic can happen when two talents meet, with accessible, easy-to-read text telling the stories of these partnerships and the brilliant creations they produced.
This series pays tribute to sharing your talent with others, to achieving excellent together, and working as a team to create something special: behind every shining star, hides another one with potential to shine even brighter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914519833
Publisher:	Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date:	11/14/2023
Series:	Team Up , #3
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.42(h) x (d)
Age Range:	13 - 14 Years

About the Author

Francesca Ferretti de Blonay (Author)
Francesca Ferretti de Blonay is a Swiss historian who specialises in teaching history to children.

Tania Garcia (Illustrator)
Tania Garcia (@taniagrt on IG - 10K followers) is an illustrator and pattern designer based in Barcelona, Spain. Together or Alone is her first book. Her work has been published in magazines such as Origin.

Editorial Reviews

2023-05-09
The lives of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are condensed and stylized into a pictorial biography in this translated title from Spain.

The historical context in which Kahlo and Rivera worked, redolent of new freedoms in post-dictatorship Mexico, is glossed over, and for readers to be denied more than a teasing glimpse at this rich cultural shift is somewhat frustrating. Rather more attention is paid to tracing the lives, careers, and thematic signatures of both artists as individuals. Kahlo’s desire to escape the confines of her earthly self through art is gently juxtaposed with Rivera’s expansive, revolutionary ideals, but these underlying complexities, too, are given short shrift, as are the nuances of their eventual partnership. The text hints at explosive passion, mutual respect and admiration, and a balance of independence and artistic symbiosis that cannot be contained within this format, which comes across almost as the elevator pitch to a much more developed story. Some of their contemporaries are introduced along with notable events and figures of the time. Where this book excels is in its illustrations, which imbue the figures depicted with all of the vibrant, eccentric verve that their real-life counterparts carried. Several pages include quotes from each artist, but no sources are provided for them or for any of the facts presented.

A lackluster attempt at introducing readers to two extraordinary partners. (glossary, timeline) (Nonfiction. 12-18)

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