A virtual gallery dedicated exclusively to Frida Kahlo with works, photos of places and objects, including clothes and jewels by the most loved Mexican artist ever.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himA virtual gallery dedicated exclusively to Frida Kahlo with works, photos of places and objects, including clothes and jewels by the most loved Mexican artist ever.
Is called “Faces of Frida” and gives the visitor the opportunity to make a complete journey into the life and works of Frida thanks to a simple and accessible site for everyone. A sort of digital collection that touches all the salient points of the artist's life.
Who was Frida, her relationship with her own body, with politics, her turbulent love with Diego Rivera, but at the center of the project are above all her imagination, the existence and legacy of Frida Kahlo.
His passion for art and for life, to be savored in a roundup of well-known and lesser-known paintings, some of which are presented in very high definition thanks to Art Camera technology. It all comes from the collaboration of Google Arts and Culture with 33 museums in seven different countries around the world.
Along with the jewels of the Dolores Olmedo Museum, the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City or the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, there is no shortage of works from private collections never seen on the net and rarely exhibited to the public, such as View of New York, self-portrait of 'artist looking out the window of the Barbizon Plaza Hotel during a 1932 trip.
Again, personal photographs and author's portraits, letters, diary pages, clothes and jewels, as well as precious drawings that reveal the creative processes underlying the most famous works. There are thematic itineraries, focus on individual paintings and editorial content, but also the most significant places in the artist's life.
One of all, Blue house, the house in the suburbs of Mexico City where Frida was born, worked and lived her intense love story with Diego Rivera, whose archives remained secret for decades have recently revealed unpublished materials to the public and scholars.
Finally, a section dedicated to the legacy of the artist, from painting to music, from cinema to fashion.
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