2.Yes Frida suffered terrible pain throughout her life because of a street car accident when she was 18. And yes, she married a scoundrel muralist who was recklessly adulterous but whom she loved anyway.
3.Twice Guston, who died in 1980, made a reputation and gave it up -- first as a figurative artist and muralist in the 1930s and 1940s, next by plunging into abstraction with his friend Jackson Pollock and other mid-century American pioneers.