Since the 1980s, Frida Khalo has been one of the most famous artists in the world. Subsequent autobiographies and films made her works extremely fashionable.
„Frida Kahlo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; a Mexican painter, famous for self-portraits. Frida Kahlo's life began and ended in Coyoacán, in her home called the "Blue House".
Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.
She often referred to as naive (primitivism) or folk art, often also as surreal. A characteristic subject raised by Kahlo in painting was suffering and physical pain. These references were directly related to her health problems from childhood (polio in the age of 6), which further intensified the consequences of a traffic accident in the teenage period. For a large part of her life she was associated with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera.”
The museum in her Blue House is very popular and it is not easy to get tickets.
We succeeded, though.
