Lust for Life

• 作者: Tao Xing
• 来源期刊: 北京周报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（39）
• 所属期刊栏目: FEATURES
• 页码范围: 40-41
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-9140.2021.39.014

摘要

In January 2018, when Lyu Xiaoning crossed the threshold of La Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo's family home in Coyoacán, Mexico, she was touched by a particular painting named Viva la Vida. For her last work, completed in 1954 fol-lowing complications from an amputated leg, Kahlo chose to paint vivacious red watermelons for their significance to the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1 and 2. This holiday sees fam-ily and friends gather in remembrance of those who have gone before them. The artist inscribed the words "Viva la Vida"on the central melon wedge at the bottom of the canvas, which trans-late as "Long live life," just eight days before she died.