Daughter of a scholarly reader photographer, the apostle of “Mexicanism” forged his strong personality during his childhood marked by polio and a serious accident. It was the latter who triggered his need to paint.
Frida is a German first name, which means “peace” in Germanic or Scandinavian land, and which will become the symbol of Mexicanism, this artistic and cultural movement of Mexico valuing the pre -Columbian inheritances. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), she is a fiercely Mexican artist, the muse and the glory of Casa Azul, his birthplace of Mexico who has become his museum with the overseas blue walls. Its magic realism has imposed itself in a world still predominantly male, made up of painters and muralists, like its great love Diego Rivera (1886-1957). This little woman’s little bit exceeded by her poetry and her frank freedom the social conventions of her time and the strict European codes of surrealism. A voluntary woman in love as in art. His self -portraits with the famous monosourcil are all visual messages of his wild unconscious left to his audience, fascinated by his marriages between popular arts, introspection and obstinacy of the pattern.
Frida is also the story …
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