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Saint Valentine: Frida & Diego in the US
15February
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Saint Valentine: Frida & Diego in the US

 

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Georgia, United States) inaugurated on Thursday Feb. 14 an exhibition by two remarkable figures of Latin American art: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. This is the first time that their work is exhibited in the city, and practically in the Southeastern side of the country, so this a special moment for viewers and the institution.

 

Coming from Mexican museum Dolores Olmedo Patiño, as well as from Arvil Gallery and Jacques & Natasha Gelman’s Mexican Art Collection, Frida y Diego: Pasion, politica y pintura includes seventy-five artworks, thirty of which are Kahlo’s and the rest were created by the man who once was her couple. Through paintings, lithographs, drawings and pictures that make the exhibition up viewers can observe how ideology was a fundamental ingredient in the relation between both creators, as well as their art.

 

The exhibition’s museography was conceived from an accurate chronology, the relation of themes that were explored by the couple of artists, from the maternity and infertility suffered by Kahlo, to the Mexican identity extoled by both artists, including the portrait style practiced by the artist, who was born in Coyoacan. Kahlo’s exhibited works are Bus (1929), Hospital Henry Ford (1932), Alla cuelga mi vestido (1933), Autorretrato con monos (1943), Diego en mi mente (1943) and La columna rota (1944); while Diego is represented by El joven de la estilografica (1914), Nature morte espagnole (1915), Dia de flores (1925) and Retrato de la señora Natasha Gelman (1943), among others.

 

Source: http://www.tiempoenlinea.com.mx