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| Frida Kahlo |
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Calderon Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo, better known as Frida Kahlo (Coyoacan, July 6, 1907 - ibidem, July 13, 1954) was a prominent Mexican painter.
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In the last part of that biography, we read ...
Last years and death
La Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo Museum .
In the spring of 1953, the Gallery of Contemporary Art in this city he organized for the first time, a major exhibition. Frida's health was very bad by then and the doctors forbade him from attending it. Minutes after all the guests were inside the gallery began to hear sirens from outside. The crowd went crazy outside, there was an ambulance accompanied by a motorcycle escort. Frida Kahlo had been taken to its exposure in a hospital bed. Photographers and journalists were impressed. She was placed in the center of the gallery. The crowd went to greet her. Frida told jokes, sang and drank the entire evening. The show was a resounding success.
That same year he had to amputate the leg below the knee due to a gangrene infection. This threw her into a deep depression that led her to attempt suicide on two occasions. During that time, because they could not do much, he wrote poems in their journals, mostly related to pain and regret.
died in Coyoacan on July 13, 1954. Not performed no autopsy. It was evening at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and his coffin was draped with the flag of the Mexican Communist Party, a fact that was widely criticized by the national press. His body was cremated and his ashes home to the Blue House in Coyoacan, the place where she was born.
The last words in his diary were: "I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return." [6]
Four years after his death, the Blue House became the Museum Frida Kahlo.
His family remains a presence in the art world to date, also have dedicated museums Retrospective: the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1977), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1980), the Whitechapel in London (1982), the Tate Modern in London (2007), the Museum of Contemporary Art Monterrey (2007), and the Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (2009).
That was his home, the Blue House, now transformed into a museum, can be explored by virtually thanks to technology. Entering this link can access an interactive program which, with the help indicative of a map (see image above) can choose which sector of the travel.
To learn more about the work of this prolific painter particular, we added a link to a page where comprehensive information is dumped on his work and his biography:
Here portraits of Frida:
And some photos of the painter.
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