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On her 109th birth anniversary
Frida Kahlo´s art seduces America, Asia, Europe and Australia
July 06, 2016One hundred and nine years after her birth, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Mexico City, July 6, 1907-Ibid., July 13, 1954) is a model of Mexican popular culture worldwide, a woman who defended her ideals and found in painting a way to overcome her physical suffering.
The self-portrait El marco (1938) by Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón was the first work of a Mexican artist of the twentieth century acquired by the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painter is the first Latin American artist to sell a painting over 5 million dollars, only exceeded by her painting Dos desnudos en el bosque –La tierra misma (1939), sold at a price close to 8 million dollars at auction at Christie's in New York in 2016.
The personality, style and limited number of works of this artist born in Coyoacan have made of her one of the most exclusive in Latin America. She was the first Latin American visual artist to surpass the threshold of one million dollars with the painting Diego y Yo, awarded $ 1.4 million in 1990. In 2006, the painting Raices (1943) reached 5.6 million at auction at Sotheby's in New York.
Frida Kahlo impresses the world
Mexican painter’s art and figure attracts audiences to enclosures where her work is exhibited. The Frida Kahlo’s exhibition. Connections between surrealist women in Mexico, showed at the Caixa Cultural of Brasilia, Brazil, had a record attendance of 94,000 people, 14,000 of them in the last three days of exhibition, closing its doors on June 5th.
The largest exhibition ever organized in Brazil about Frida Kahlo, brought together 30 works by the artist, six of them are her famous self-portraits, as well as a hundred works by 14 other women artists who had a personal relationship with Frida, Mexico and Surrealism. In addition, the public could see clothes, accessories, documents, photographic records, catalogs and reports, articles that helped measure the sensation the artist caused worldwide.
In its tour in Brazil, the exhibition achieved historical attendance figures in Sao Paulo, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute and at Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, where 600,000 people attended respectively.
Across the planet
Not only you can see Frida’s paintings and belongings in America, but also the people of South Korea enjoy Frida Kahlo’s and Diego Rivera’s works, from the collection of the Museo Dolores Olmedo of Mexico at the Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul Arts Center since last May 28th.
The Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera exhibition made up of 30 oil paintings and drawings by Diego Rivera and 26 paintings by the artist, including La columna rota, plus 140 photographs that evidence both artists’ life.
While in Sydney, Australia, the Frida and Diego exhibition from Jacques and Natasha Gelman’s collection currently is presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The exhibition of over 30 pieces by artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as photographs by Edward Weston (1886-1958), Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907-1993) and Guillermo Kahlo (1871-1941) is the first one on display by Mexican artists in the city.
This exhibition explores the life and the art of two of the most famous artists of the twentieth century and includes paintings pending to be self-portraits and drawings by Frida Kahlo, as well as oil on canvas by Diego Rivera, which will be available to the public until October 9th.
The painter’s objects
The Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, will show until August 21st the Frida Is exhibition by photographer Miyako Ishiuchi, who presents her impressions of Frida Kahlo's belongings taken at the Casa Azul (Blue House) in Coyoacan in 2012.
Hasselblad Award winner photographed Mexican artist’s belongings, which were discovered in a bathroom of her home in 2004, and they were hidden after Frida’s death about half a century by muralist Diego Rivera’s order.
Different aspects of Mexican artist’s private life such as her continuous pain-through pictures of pills, ampoules or a thermometer-, her coquetry-nail polish, colorful costumes, costume jewelry-, or her serious physical problems -corsets, plaster and orthopaedic shoes- are shown through 31 photographs.
In Russia for the first time
Frida’s artistic work was also in Russia for the first time at the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg, from February 3rd to May 2nd 2016, where paintings and drawings from the collection of Mexico, made up of 34 works, including paintings, lithographs and drawings from the Museo Dolores Olmedo, was seen by 210,988 people.
Just outside the Shuvalov Palace, where the museum is located, long lines of people were observed. In the beginning of the opening, the museum put 900 tickets available per day, but due to space, safety and quality reasons a daily limit attendance of 2,000 spectators was set.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón made her life a work of art. In her paintings she expressed her fantasies and feelings through her own vocabulary, she represented the relationship with her husband, painter Diego Rivera, how her body felt, her illnesses as a result of a tragic accident, her disability to have children, her philosophy of nature and the world.
The artist grew up in the Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo Museum today. Experts say that Frida Kahlo was the creator of a personal painting, naive and metaphorical. She created works related to her personal life experiences and physical pain. A total of 143 works, of which 55 are self-portraits.
The author of Las dos Fridas (1939) had her leg amputated in 1953. She died at the age of 47, on July 13th, 1954. Her remains are located in the Casa Azul in the Cuarto de Noche, in an urn.
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