Kahlo vs Van Gogh: must art bleed to be true?

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FRIDA KAHLO vs GOGH go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

FRIDA KAHLO

I painted my broken spine, my miscarriages, my own face staring back - because I was the subject I knew best.

GOGH

And I painted the wheat fields and the stars, Frida - I fled myself into the world, hoping the cypresses would forgive me.

FRIDA KAHLO

But you never sold your escape, Vincent; I made my pain a mirror people could not look away from.

GOGH

Then we agree - you framed the wound, I framed the sky above it, and both were painted to keep from drowning.

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