The Blue House of Frida Kahlo

The house is transformed as much as their owners. Experiences, feelings, love and suffering are shaped like an indelible mark.

Being a guest or occasional visitor to a home is a significant pure time. The house is a semiosis in all its splendor. Its walls, colors, pictures and setting contain a wealth invaluable. Lowly or highly tech, owned or rented, home speaks for its inhabitant. It consists of himself and recreates it in your life experience.

Knowing Frida
There are many ways to get to know Frida Kahlo. Through his art, reading his biography, his diary, anecdotes and stories of family members, critics and fans. It can also be a participant in a different form: tour your home. Accessing the website, official house-museum can make a wonderful virtual tour that overlooks the façade and location of the house to her bedroom, kitchen, living room, patio and study.

Every detail of furniture Frida speaks for itself. Even without knowing anything about her, is very interesting that was touring the space and discover a different way.
The blue house
South of the city of Mexico in the colonial neighborhood of Coyoacan, is the blue house is now the Museo Frida official. Located at the corner of Londres and Allende, the house occupies an entire block. A facade of an intense blue and green large windows give access to a world full of inspiration and movement.

For many years, the Blue House was part of the life of another great Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, Frida whom he married twice. The artist was born and lived there until his death in 1954. Conversations took place there, fights and reconciliations of which we can never learn in detail. However, even after many years, conservation and maintenance of equipment, utensils, paintings and furniture of their residents can take a trip reconstructive stylistic tastes, cultural and political.

Experiences, tastes and habits
From the entrance, the pre-Hispanic style runs throughout the home, and bright colors like blue, green and yellow, they speak of the aesthetic tradition of Mexico. You can recognize the close relationship with communism Frida through portraits at the top of his bedroom, there is the groundbreaking quintet composed of Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung.

His love for nature is also present, is a butterfly collection at the head of your bed and a vast tropical vegetation covers the internal gardens and crops for each window.

The spacious kitchen, patio and living room, can account for a family who enjoys the meetings. He gathered artists and politicians, students and residents were regulars.

The separate rooms of Diego and Frida realize the couple's divorce and the relentless need for the other. Frida on her pillow embroidered "Do not forget me, my love." There is substantial medical books, philosophy, art and politics.

The wood and metal corset, brand of unhappiness that dismayed his life after the accident, are also present, like a wheelchair in front of the lectern of the study.

It also recreate your particular taste and cute flowery dresses, jewelry and indigenous motifs. His pots, brushes and some of his most representative works, like "Viva la vida" (1954), "Frida and Caesar" (1932) and "The Two Fridas" (1939), are an indispensable part of the route.

Decoration is life itself
Almost without thinking, the home is changing. Colors and shades, or remodeling by the arrival of a host, frequent guests, meetings, life experiences and feelings. Perhaps it is not common to notice. The speed of everyday life often gives no respite. However, invite a person to a purely home is significant because, without doubt, hear yourself over what you've told.