Madonna's weird tatse in art
PUSSSYKATT
MADONNA'S obsession with a graphic painting that shows a woman giving birth is
said to be creeping out her husband, Guy Ritchie.
The pop goddess has prominently hung Frida Kahlo's "My Birth," showing a woman
with her legs spread birthing a baby, in her homes in New York or Los Angeles
for many years. Madonna has famously said in the past that she couldn't be
friends with anyone who was repulsed by the anatomically-explicit oil on
canvas.
Now come reports that Ritchie has been arguing with Madonna about her
insistence on hanging the work in their abodes. At least one British gossip web
site claims that the painting has even given Madonna's little daughter Lourdes
nightmares.
But Madonna's rep, Liz Rosenberg, calls those tales "ridiculous. Madonna has
exposed her daughter to many forms of art since she was very, very young. Some
people may consider it graphic, but it is a beautiful work of art.
"She's been fascinated with Frida Kahlo" - wife of famed Mexican painter Diego
Rivera - "for years. She owns several of her paintings. She went to Mexico City
to see the house were Kahlo and Rivera lived. She is fascinated with her
philosophy and the way she conducted her life."
As far as Madonna declaring she could not be friends with anyone who
pooh-poohed the painting, Rosenberg said: "It sounds like something she would
say, but I have a feeling she wasn't very serious about it. I think she
understands that people have different tastes in art."
Madonna isn't the only sexy superstar entranced with Kahlo. In the dream role
she has coveted for years, Latina lovely Salma Hayek will play the artist in an
upcoming Miramax biopic.
Alfred Molina portrays Rivera, Geoffery Rush is Kahlo's lover Leon Trotsky, and
Hayek's real-life boyfriend Ed Norton plays Nelson Rockefeller. Antonio
Banderas and Ashley Judd also star in the Julie Taymor-directed "Frida Kahlo,"
now shooting in Mexico.
Madonna, who snapped up "My Birth" about 10 years ago for $500,000 and has seen
its value top $3 million since then, loaned another Kahlo curiosity, "Self
Portrait with Monkey," to London's Tate Modern for its soon-to-open surrealist
show.
Rosenberg also downplayed an interview in Germany's Stern magazine in which
Ritchie claimed that living with Madonna isn't always easy. "That interview was
done about a year ago, when he was promoting ‘Snatch,'" Rosenberg said. "They
pulled the quotes and made it look like it happened yesterday. They're a very
happy couple."
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