Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting features more than eighty paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as well as an important group of photographs by artists who captured the couple’s shared passion for each other and for Mexico’s revolutionary culture during the 1920s and 1930s.

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father had immigrated to Mexico from Germany in 1891, while her mother was of indigenous (Amerindian) and Spanish ancestry.

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1886. He studied painting and moved to Madrid in 1907 to continue his studies. By 1909 he moved to Paris and spent much of the next fourteen years there, until the outbreak of World War I. He traveled around Europe, including to southern France and Italy, and was influenced by the work of Picasso, Cézanne, and Renoir. When he began to study Renaissance frescoes in Italy, however, he knew he had found his medium.

Click below to download a PowerPoint presentation of the key works in this exhibition, Multimedia Guide Scripts in both Spanish and English, Lesson Plans, Hands-On Activity Stations and the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards.

These websites offer helpful supplementary information about Frida and Diego and are suitable for both student and teacher use.

These children’s books can serve as an introduction to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera for your students.

Use these quotes as writing or discussion prompts, and consider them alongside paintings by Frida and Diego.

Visit the exhibition microsite to learn more about Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and this exhibition.