Frida Kahlo loved animals and nature. The wonderful Mexican naturalistic heritage is often present in her works. Her own gardens inspired her paintings and comforted her in her turbulent life.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himFrida Kahlo he loved animals It's the nature. The wonderful Mexican naturalistic heritage is often present in his works. I of himself gardens they inspired her paintings and consoled her in her turbulent life.
In the last phase of her life, after a serious accident that forced her to bed, the painter had specifically requested to be moved to a room in her house with a better view. She wanted to see her garden.
The book Frida Kahlo Garden, highlights thelove of the painter for plants and trees that grew in his garden and makes it clear how these natural elements inspired his art.
The house of the Mexican painter, nicknamed Casa Azul, was located in Mexico City in the Coyoacan area. Here Frida lived for most of her life. The garden of this house can be considered as one of her works of art. The house was bought by her father in 1904, three years before her birth.
Over the years both the house and the garden were enlarged and renovated to meet the artistic taste of Frida Kahlo who took advantage of his love for colors to combine different plants and flowers in the flower beds.
The garden for the painter was a place of well-being and inspiration, an engaging world where he could think about his work, relax or entertain friends. In the periods when she devoted herself to teaching, she used her garden as an open-air classroom for her students, nicknamed “Los Fridos” for their devotion to the painter.
The flowers and fruits of the garden were then used to create compositions on the large dining table, where the protagonists were blue and white irises, dahlias, calla lilies, violets and marigolds. Often the artist kept flowers between the pages of books and left them to dry.
The New York exhibition includes the personal copy of Walt Witman's poetic masterpiece "Leaves of Grass", which still contains dry leaves and dried flower petals that have been in the pages for years. The books in Frida's collection are mainly about Mexican art and plants.
In the garden of his house he had had one rebuilt pyramid in aztec style and he had used its walls to display ancient artifacts. The garden recalled the 19th century European taste for ferns and palms to which were added native plants such as agaves, cacti and prickly pears, which grew together with quince and apricot trees, pomegranates and oranges.
The painter's love for plants, fruit and flowers is expressed above all in still lifes. He loved using local fruits and flowers as a means to enhance Mexican heritage and nationality. He is a sign of how Mexican intellectuals and artists were rediscovering not only the traditions and rituals of the natives but also the Mexican natural world, with particular reference to the plant kingdom.
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