{"id":614,"date":"2007-07-18T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/07\/18\/mexico-city-celebrates-100-years-of-frida-kahlo\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:48:45","slug":"mexico-city-celebrates-100-years-of-frida-kahlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/mexico-city-celebrates-100-years-of-frida-kahlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City Celebrates 100 Years of Frida Kahlo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"frida_kahlo\"<\/a>They came from far away to Mexico City\u2019s Museum of the Fine Arts Palace which is exhibiting the biggest collection of Frida Kahlo\u2019s works, 100 years after her birth.\u00a0 The exhibit features her most famous paintings which include \u201cThe Two Fridas\u201d and \u201cThe Broken Column\u201d, as well as numerous of other self portraits that depict her physical and psychological pain that stems from a traffic accident when the bus she was riding on collided with a trolley when she was 18 years old.
\nThe exhibit \u2013 which goes on through August \u2013 also features
\n some of her early works done in her teens before the accident and various commissioned portraits that were borrowed, letters, and still-life paintings of tropical fruits that are rarely seen.\u00a0 Walking through the halls that housed this exhibit one might think that she really loved herself because of all the different variations of Frida\u2019s self portraits, but as one reads the story behind many of the more obscure works, you realize the loneliness she experienced when she used herself as her main subject in the times she was in bed due to illness.
\nInside the Fine Arts Palace people from all over the world learned more about the Mexican artist\u2019s life and relationships through her art.\u00a0 As a baby, she was breast-fed by an indigenous woman who worked for her family, which Frida has depicted in \u201cMy Nanny and I\u201d that appeared at the exhibit.\u00a0 After her accident Frida was bedridden for months and it was then that she began to paint the numerous self portraits, since she was stuck with her self.\u00a0 Frida married the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera \u2013 who was 20 years older than her \u2013 then divorced him due to his constant cheating but then remarried him again later.\u00a0 He appears in some of her woks and in her painting \u201cEmbrace of the Universe\u201d she holds the naked, adult-sized Diego Rivera in her arms as if she was holding a baby.\u00a0 Frida was also known to be unfaithful to Diego and had an affair with Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky.\u00a0 She was also openly bisexual in an even more intolerant country and time.\u00a0 She was never able to bear children because during her accident she damaged her uterus.\u00a0 She died of pulmonary embolism on July 14, 1954.
\nFrida\u2019s work grew in popularity when her life was depicted in the 2002 movie \u201cFrida\u201d which was produced by and starred the Mexican actress Salma Hayek.\u00a0 Many who attend the exhibit will be able to witness this remarkable collection and even take some books, shirts, and other souvenirs home.\u00a0 To some critics this commercialization is something Frida, who was a communist sympathizer, would have probably been opposed to.<\/p>\n

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