Archive for September 16th, 2007
Learn creativity from Frida
Kahlo’s work which portrays Mexico’s indigenous culture in a unique style that fuses realism, symbolism and surrealism stems from her deep love for the country.
Arevolutionary artist, Frida Kahlo’s love of Mexico is reflected in her work which portrays the country’s indigenous culture in a unique style that fuses realism, symbolism and surrealism.
“I hope the exit is joyful – and I hope never to return.” A few days before she died in 1954, Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico’s greatest artists, wrote this line in her diary. Her wish for a joyful exit was denied her. Some of her contemporaries claimed that she died from a selforchestrated overdose, though the official cause of her death was given as pulmonary embolism. The year prior to her death was a difficult one – her right leg had been amputated at the knee and she had a bout of bronchopneumonia.
On July 7 this year, the world celebrated Kahlo’s hundredth birth anniversary with the largest-ever exhibit of her paintings at the Museum of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico. All through her life Kahlo had insisted that 1910 was the year of her birth. This was not an exercise in vanity but a desire to begin her life in the same year as that of modern Mexico – 1910 was the year of the Mexican Revolution and the overthrow of President Porfirio Diaz.
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