dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Rodman
vorname: Selden
wikidata-repräsentation: Q7447599
gnd-repräsentation: 116579463
biografische angaben: 1909–2002. American writer
«I had a talk this afternoon with a well-known dealer who hast handeld most of the Mexicans. He told me that Diego [Rivera] had been keeping several mistresses happy after Frieda's death until, last year, a cancer developped where calculalted to interfere most of his activity. The 'capitalist' doctors had wanted to amputate, but the painter had flown to the Soviet Union where he had received at least a partial cure, returned, married his present wife [Emma Hurtado], and started to paint again with renewed 'faith'.
[Rufino] Tamayo is in New York, whre he now lives most of the year.
[Miguel] Covarrubias is in the hospital undergoing surgery for ulcers 'because his wife refuses to give him a divorce. He wants to marry a young dancer.'
Siqueiros is painting murals in Poland and lecturing in the U.S.S.R.
Goítia is 'completely crazy' in Xochimilco.
'What do you feel about the present state of Mexican art?' I asked his. He lowered his voice. 'Frankly, it's hopeless,' he said. 'The vital art is being produced in your country today; but no Mexican will admit it – or even look at it. It's a point of honor with us that no art can possibly come from across the border. From Spain, yes; from France, perhaps; but from the U.S. – never!'» (p. 23)