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The Frida Kahlo Museum (Spanish: Museo Frida Kahlo), also known as the Blue House (La Casa Azul) for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It is in the Colonia del Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.
4 January 2022–present: Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon at Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney. Audio visual exhibition created by the Frida Kahlo Corporation. [316] [317] 8 February–12 May 2019: Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving at the Brooklyn Museum. This was the largest U.S. exhibition in a decade devoted solely to the painter and the ...
The Frida Kahlo Museum, popularly called “La Casa Azul” (The Blue House) is one of the most popular sites in Coyoacán. It is a deep blue house on Londres Street, built in the early 20th century in which Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 and in which she spent the last thirteen years of her life.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter active between 1925 and 1954. She began painting while bedridden due to a bus accident that left her seriously injured. Most of her work consists of self-portraits, which deal directly with her struggle with medical issues, infertility, and her troubeparate Frida on which to project her anguish and pain. [2]
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954 Frida in Flames (Self-Portrait Inside of a Sunflower) [15] Oil on canvas, mounted on wood, 23.8 x 32.4 cm [3] Private collection, United States [3] 1954 Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick: El Marxismo dará salud a los enfermos: Oil on masonite, 76 x 61 cm Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico 1954
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By 1944, Kahlo's doctors had recommended that she wear a steel corset instead of the plaster casts she had worn previously. The brace depicted is one of many that Frida actually used throughout her life time and is now housed in her home and museum, Casa Azul. [7] In The Broken Column this corset holds together Kahlo's damaged body. [5] [8] [9]
Overall, My Dress Hangs There demonstrates Kahlo's criticisms of capitalism [2] and her desire to return to Mexico. [3] On the back of the painting, Kahlo wrote "Pinté esto en New York cuando Diego estaba pintando el mural en Rockefeller Center (I painted this in New York when Diego was painting the mural at Rockefeller Center)." [2]