Around the house is a beautiful garden with lush green palms and trees, Mexican terra-cotta pots filled with plants, native Mexican flowers, pre-Hispanic artifacts and art displayed on a four-tiered pyramid inspired by the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan and Mayan sculptures.
Painted in deep cobalt blue color in exterior, the 'Blue House' has a lot of color inside, such as the blue and the yellow in the beautiful kitchen with geometric patterns and tiles.
Coyoacan is the location of the famous “Blue House” of Frida Kahlo and the museum created by Diego Rivera as tribute to Mexico’s pre-Hispanic history and to his wife, Frida Kahlo.
Frida Kahlo's paintings and drawings, highlighting the use of botanical imagery in her work include 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird' (1940), 'Flower of Life' (1944), 'Still Life with Parrot and Flag' (1951); and 'Self-Portrait Inside a Sunflower' (1954).
Focusing on iconic engagement with nature in her native country Mexico, Frida Kahlo's paintings and drawings incorporate plants and organic materials, Mexican fruits and flowers and animals, Mexican folk art, and pre-Columbian objects.
'Magnolias' and 'Portrait of a woman in white'.
Among her most famous paintings are: 'The Broken Column', ‘Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird’, 'Roots', 'Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair', 'The Wounded Deer', 'Weeping Coconuts'. 'The Two Fridas', 'Flower of Life', 'Fruits of the Earth', 'The Flying Bed',
A bold figure in the 'Neo-Mexicanism' Art Movement, her folk art was considered as an expression of Surrealism and Magic Realism, although Frida Kahlo denied it. “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” she said.
She painted brutal self-portraits, she endured miscarriages and a broken marriage, and was the patient who endured fear, physical pain and underwent more than 35 medical operations throughout her life.
She often evoked episodes from her life, including her struggle with physical pain and the distress caused by her hard and turbulent relationships with her husband.
A master of self-portraits, Frida Kahlo often incorporated portrayals of physical and psychological wounds in her self-portraits, as an expression of her own grave injuries and relapses of extreme pains she suffered, as a result of a traffic accident.
She was rebel, revolutionary, deeply feminist, a sworn communist, her paintings were focused on infertility, gender equality, miscarriages, heartbreak and sickness, but what was really fascinating was that Frida always lived as she wanted.
Frida Kahlo, the famous nonconformist Mexican artist, who painted self-portraits along her life, became one of the most recognized artists in the world, and most often the only Latin America woman painter most people know.
wrote Frida Kahlo in a letter to her husband, the painter and muralist Diego Rivera.
“I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am.”
Featuring narrow, colonial-era streets, cafés and a bohemian atmosphere, Coyoacan played host to Leon Trotski, and famous artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Celia Nutall and Salvador Novo who all called Coyoacan home.
Artists and writers used to live there to enjoy the quiet and pleasant atmosphere of Coyoacán and Frida Kalho was among them.
A rural village until the 19th century, with quiet atmosphere, plazas and narrow streets, and colonial architecture, Coyoacán became in 1857 a borough of Mexico City, filled with restaurants, art galleries, museums, bookstores and craftwork markets.
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