Get some insight into Frida Kahlo’s artistic life
Paint bottles sparkle in their tray next to an easel. It appears as though the artist has just walked out. Clay fertility figures, papier-mâché skeletons, and hanging cherubs are among the artesanas (handicrafts) from around Mexico that line the chambers. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits and works inspired by Mexican landscape and antiques. She used a naive folk-art style inspired by Mexican popular culture to investigate problems of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
The Blue House is where Frida was born, lived, and died, with everything exactly as she left it. The silver jewelry, short bed, crutches, wheelchair, and prosthetic limb of the artist are all present. Frida lived with a handicap her whole life and channeled her physical and mental agony into her art, which emphasized pre-Hispanic art and customs.
Frida famously used traditional Oaxacan skirts and shawls to invoke the female strength of her mother's local ladies. There are several additional spots in Mexico City where you may trace Frida's life. To be here, in her volcanic stone house and courtyard, is to experience her love for Mexico and its people. It's a fascinating look at her life and work.
