casa azul frida

Hello, my name is Maya Amos.

And today I'll be talking about my virtual tour with a casa soon

and why Frida and Diego were so interested

in collecting popular folk and pre Columbian art

as you can see here.

This is the dining room Frida,

Kahlo and Diego Rivera and it has beautiful colors such as yellow

and blue that perfectly contrast each other just like their marriage did.

Um, on the walls

we can see uh dove that's adorned on the walls with beating and then the same beating,

we can see Frida's name and on the other side it has Diego's name.

Um, this furthering showing how much in love they were at the time.

We also see on the counter space as a

whole bunch of different kinds of pots and pottery

mainly to suggest that that was a popular folk art at the time

um

done by the local people or themselves even

Now, as we know in 1925, Frida,

Kahlo was in a terrible trolley accident which made her infertile

and it really hurt her physically as well as mentally.

So most of the time Frida had to spend in bed or

inside the house and she wasn't able to move around that much.

Now, even though she was in bed most of the time,

this does not stop her from using her own body as a modern day art piece.

She would spend hours. Some sources say

that she would spend hours

looking for the perfect outfit

and adorning her body with different kinds of jewelry from the,

the townspeople or from the places Diego has visited without her

or even places where Diego has visited with her with her.

She would spend a couple of hours searching for the perfect colors

to put on her body and um perfect placement for her hair

as you can see here. She seen her herself as her own art piece

and she even created dolls and she adorned her entire house

with different kinds of art pieces that spoke to her directly

here. We have uh

guitar from

the local village

and we can see that she hung it up on her wall just

to make sure that she has a sense of identity in her mexicana history

here we have a couple of ceramic pieces also done locally I assume.

And um as you can see that these ones are more pre Columbian um from

the different kinds of colors they used inside of the sculptures such as the that

dark brownish color

and the the

the green colors that are more vibrant there

Frida decided to use these different kinds of art pieces and create her

own art like this as a sense of identity and her mexican heritage.

And she,

she usually adorned her entire walls and decor with all

of this because she felt sympathy for the people of Mexico

and she felt a sense of pride within it.

As you can see here, there is her painting space,

you can see all the different kinds of vibrant colors she uses,

you can see how she would have to sit in her wheelchair right there just to paint.

And this was something that she enjoyed doing because it was able

to express not only herself of identity but also her sense of,

um,

her sons of

heritage that she so long fully wants to keep connected.

Mm hmm.

I hope you enjoyed my sides. And I hope you enjoyed this video.

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