Museo Frida Kahlo - Frida Kahlo Museum
This was home to the enigmatic painter Frida Kahlo (often called “the paintbrush of angst") where she occasionally lived with her husband Diego Rivera. The place outside the house of this remarkable painter and her husband Diego Rivera, serves today as a modest enclosure as tribute to its life and builds. Frida Kahlo (1910-1954) - the brush of the anguish was run over by a bus when as soon as counted on 16 years of age, during the rest of her life it underwent the consequences of this accident and throughout his laborious convalecencia it began to paint.
The rooms located in the ground floor of the enclosure, contain a considerable number of paintings of Jose Maria Velasco, Celia Calderón, Marcel Duchamp, Wolfgang Paulen, Paul Klee, Claussel, lithographies of Jose Clemente Orozco and several oils of her. Also their dresses of tehuana are exhibited and a collection of preHispanic pieces; next to the kitchen is the one that was firing chamber of Diego Rivera. In the high plant it is the study of Frida with his small horses, book, wheelchair and collection of pre-Hispanic necklaces. In the garden also some sculptures can be observed.
Kahlo was born in this house on July 7,1910, and lived here with Rivera from 1929 to 1954. During the 1930s and 1940s it was a popular gathering place for intellectuals. As you wander through the rooms of this cornflower-blue house you’ll get a glimpse of the life they led. Most of the rooms remain in their original state, with mementos everywhere. Tiny clay pots hang about; the names Diego and Frida are painted on the walls of the kitchen. In the studio upstairs, a wheelchair sits next to the easel with a partially completed painting surrounded by paintbrushes, palettes, books, photographs, and other paraphernalia of the couple’s art-centered lives.
Frida and Diego collected pre-Columbian art, and many of the rooms contain jewelry and terra-cotta figurines from Teotihuacán and Tlatelolco. Kahlo even had a mock-up of a temple built in the garden to exhibit her numerous pots and statues. On the back side of the temple are several skulls from Chichén-Itzá. A cafe on the first floor serves light snacks, and the adjacent bookstore offers a full range of Kahlo and Rivera books and other commercialized memorabilia of this famous couple.
To learn more about their remarkable lives, I recommend Bertram D. Wolfe’s Diego Rivera: His Life and Times and Hayden Herrara’s Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo.
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