La Colección Andrés Blaisten en Boston en el MFA

El Museum of Fine Arts the Boston  adquiró una obra de Frida Kahlo y para entender su contexto organizó una exposición para homenajear a la artista incluyendo obras de algunos de sus contemporáneos que también tomaron como tema las artes populares para sus creaciones. La Colección Blaisten participó en esta exposición con

Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma, Niña, 1925. Óleo sobre tela, 72x55 cm

Rosa Rolanda. La niña de la muñeca, 1943. Óleo sobre tela, 65x50 cm

María Izquierdo. La alacena,  1947. Óleo sobre tela, 102x 85 cm

A continuación les compartimos un artículo sobre la exposición:

Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular – Museum of Fine Arts Boston

March 22, 2019 

Written by franfolsom

Paintings by renowned Mexican born artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is the current exhibit, Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular, February 27 through June 16, 2019, at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. There have been many exhibitions of Frida Kahlo’s art, that being said, this is the very first one that the MFA has held.

Most exhibitions on Kahlo delve into her life; her battle with polio at age six, a bus accident at age 18 that left her with a fractured pelvis, broke her spine in three places and a shattered right leg for which she endured 30 operations, and, in later years her turbulent marriage to artist Diego Riviera.  Even with all this Kahlo was not a lonely, tragic figure.  She was well traveled, was friends with women artists of her time, collected Arte Popular and chose to wear traditional textiles as a show of solidarity to other Mexican artists.

Curator Layla Bermeo has taken a different slant by making Frida Kahlo’s art the focus of this exhibit. She goes a couple of steps more by including works by 20^th century women artists such as photographer Henrietta Theodora Markovitch’s picture of Kahlo in one of her many Tehuana dresses taken in Paris in 1938.
Kahlo’s personal collection of Mexican folk art – textiles, toys, ceramics, sculptures and pottery – Arte Popular can’t go out of Mexico.  Bermeo, to adhere to the exhibits focus, has strategically placed throughout five galleries ceramic and textile pieces reflecting what Kahlo had in her collection.
All total there are eight of Kahlo’s paintings in the exhibit, including her gorgeous Self-Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace and 40 objects similar of Arte Popular.

In a gallery behind the exhibit is El Bano de Frida a series of solemn pictures taken by photographer Graciela Iturbide of Kahlo’s bathroom showing her crutches, canes and body braces. On her death in 1954 a grief-stricken Diego Riviera ordered her bathroom not to be touched and closed the door.  It remained that way for decades.
Images by Fran Folsom
Image #1 Tehuano dress – Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, ca. 1930 – 1940 – cotton, hand-embroidered
Image #2 Cupboard – artist – Maria Izquierdo – ca. 1947 – oil on canvas
Image #3 Self – Portrait with Hummingbird and Thorn Necklace – Coyoacan, Mexico – ca. 1940 – oil on canvas
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