Frida's paintings often show herself, alone or with Diego, and reflect her pain and her ecstasy. Frida's paintings are bright, enticing, sometimes morbidly distressing. It is comfortably between folk and fine art. Her paintings are imperious and colorful. Frida's painting is on a smaller scale than Rivera's famous murals, and her art is overshadowed by his. His leads to an infamous incident, when he is hired by Rockefeller to create a mural for Rocketfeller Center, and boldly includes Lenin among the figures he paints. Rockerfeller commands the mural to be hammered down from the wall…
