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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón [a] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
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
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
The museum consists of ten rooms. On the ground floor is a room that contains some of Kahlo's mostly minor works such as Frida y la cesárea, 1907–1954, Retrato de familia, 1934, Ruina, 1947, Retrato de Guillermo Kahlo, 1952, El marxismo dará salud, 1954 (showing Frida throwing away her crutches), with a watercolor Diario de Frida in the center.
Kahlo painted The Two Fridas in 1939, the same year she divorced artist Diego Rivera, [1] although they remarried a year later. According to Kahlo's friend, Fernando Gamboa, the painting was inspired by two paintings that Kahlo saw earlier that year at the Louvre: Théodore Chassériau's The Two Sisters and the anonymous Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters.
In reality, Kahlo painted them during a suffocating period of her life when she was tangled in a messy divorce and desperate for work. Frida, a new documentary produced by TIME Studios out in ...
The work had been commissioned by Albert M. Bender, an art collector and supporter of Rivera. There are many interpretations of the work. Hayden Herrera, author of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983), interprets the work simply as Kahlo depicting herself as the wife of the great artist, Rivera. [3]
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