The Loving Mexican Nicknamed "The Cannibal": Wives and Lovers of the Famous Muralist Diego Rivera

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The outstanding Mexican artist Diego Rivera was famous not only for his brilliant talent as a muralist, for his political views, but also for his stormy love affairs, which are still legendary. Enveloping women with his extraordinary charm, Diego literally absorbed them with his stormy passion. Many of his "victims" were talented socialites who achieved success with their talents and had fairly well-known names.

Diego Rivera himself was awkward, huge and fat, with bulging eyes and bulging eyelids. He could not be called handsome in any way. But women have always adored him. He conquered them with his inner magnetism and wild passion, which simply seethed in him and destroyed women's hearts.

And Diego often portrayed himself as a fat-bellied frog with someone's heart in his hand. And somehow he confessed: This is why the temperamental Mexican was nicknamed "cannibal" by his Parisian friends, the painters Picasso, Reyes, Modigliani, the writer Ehrenburg.

In his own work, Diego admired beautiful women, comparing them with white feces - "slender, fragrant, breathing the freshness of a sunny morning." With huge bouquets of snow-white feces, he emphasized the dark skin of temperamental Mexican women and the exquisite beauty of secular lionesses. On his canvases, they seemed to be buried in huge buds of lovely flowers.

Angelina Belova - Rivera's first wife

The first marriage of the young Mexican Diego Rivera was concluded through passionate love with the Russian artist Angelina Belova in 1911.. Their relationship was filled with passion, wild jealousy, despair and even fights. They had a son who died of the flu in 1918. As a result, the couple broke up, but Angelina continued to love Diego all her life.

Living in Paris, she dreamed of leaving for Mexico. Rivera had such a strong influence on her. In letters, she often wrote to her ex-husband that now Diego is her god, Mexico is her homeland, and Spanish is her native language. And at the age of 45, Angelina nevertheless moved to Mexico, and lived there until the end of her days. And once, when they met by chance in Mexico City, Diego pretended not to recognize her …

Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya nicknamed "Marevna"

While still married to Angelina, the hot Mexican charmed another Russian artist nicknamed Marevna, which Maxim Gorky invented for the 19-year-old beauty when he met on Capri in honor of the fabulous sea princess, the young writer said to the young artist.

But Paris at that time was mysterious, full of legends and amazing stories that were created by contemporaries. And all this could not but captivate the young girl. She plunged headlong into the bohemian life of the French capital.

Having fallen in love with the young Marevna, Rivera literally struck his "victim" with pressure and passion. And when the artist realized that there were no moral prohibitions for the mad Diego, she gave up. And in her memoirs she later wrote:

And a year after the death of Diego's son, Marevna had a daughter named Marika, who later became a famous film actress and dancer. But the father in public never recognized the girl as his daughter. The reason for this was frenzied jealousy: Picasso liked to tease his friend, and stroking Maria's rounded belly he said: "This is not yours - this is mine." Than strongly pissed off the Mexican.

Soon Diego abandons his mistress with the child and leaves for his homeland, where he decides to start a new life. In memory of himself Marevna, he leaves "a fantastic bouquet of passions", which contained everything: extravagant love, insults, wild jealousy. She's a scar on his neck from a knife. '' Marevna will write later,

Guadalupe Marine - Rivera's second wife

Returning to Mexico, Rivera, inspired by the changes that took place in the country after the revolution, joined the Mexican Communist Party. And he begins work on his monumental works, which were later called murals.

And in 1922, he officially married a second time to Guadalupe Marin, a famous model and writer. Diego was inflamed with passionate love for the tall, beautiful Mexican Lupe, who soon became the mother of his two daughters. But in 1928, this marriage broke up. For a long time, Guadalupe could not come to terms with this, and for many years she reminded of herself Diego and his next wife.

Diego and Frida Kahlo: marriage of an elephant and a dove

By 1929, 43-year-old Diego met the main woman of his life - 22-year-old Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. With none of his beloved women, Rivera was not as close spiritually as with her.

His dove didn’t look alike. All these advantages of young Frida attracted Diego to her like a magnet.

In 1939, there was a divorce due to Diego's intimate relationship with Frida's sister, Christina. After her husband's infidelity, she decided that she also had the right to love interests. And one of these hobbies was Leon Trotsky, who settled in Mexico with his wife in 1937.

But already in 1940, Diego and Frida were married again. Diego himself begged his wife to return home, agreeing to any conditions. And she put forward a requirement to conclude a marriage contract, which provided for a complete rejection of intimate relationships between spouses.

This married couple had no children, Frida's two pregnancies ended in miscarriages. Together with Diego, they lived for twenty-five years.

Diego Rivera and Maria Felix - the legend of Mexico

Maria Felix - the famous Mexican actress was called "the eater of men's hearts". Men, being next to her, lost their heads. Diego Rivera was passionately in love with the actress and painted many of her portraits. It was said that they were lovers. And Frida herself asked Maria to marry Diego after her death.

Emma Hurtado - Rivera's last wife

After the death of Frida, Diego soon married again. Emma Hurtado, the owner of the art salon, became his chosen one.

Throughout his life, Rivera remained an irrepressible macho and womanizer, cheating on all his wives with mistresses who bore him illegitimate children.

Diego died at the age of 70, having outlived his dove, Frida, by only three years. After himself, the famous Mexican left a huge legacy in art, culture and politics. He was not only a passionate lover of women, but also "Fiery crusader brush".