“Who needs feet when I have wings to fly”
Frida Kahlo
Above photograph of Frida was by her friend Nikolas Muray
The Blue House or Casa Azul as it is known because of it’s cobalt blue walls. It was her childhood home and was not originally that color. It was built in a French style and only later when she inherited it did she make changes to the style and the color.
Above-Her parents and below a portrait of her Father.
Below her bed with the mirror she used for self portraits.
Above the kitchen.
Above and below- The studio
Above and Below -some of the clothes in the museum that belonged to her.
Above– the view up at the sky from the garden.
Below– “The place of wolves” or Coyuacan is where Fridas house and Museum is located. Now a suburb of Mexico City it was once a distant village on the southern shore of the great lake ( Lake Texcoco) that existed in pre hispanic times. During and after the conquest it was Spain’s headquarters for several years and some of the oldest Spanish buildings still standing in Mexico are located here. The city was independent until well into the mid-20th century, when it was subsumed into Mexico City.
The area was always a haven for the bohemian set. Writers and artists chose to live there and still do. Leon Trotsky on the run from Stalin lived (and died) here too.
In nearby San Angel another old village is the studio and home of Diego Rivera which he shared for a time with Frida.The two houses were famously connected by a bridge.
Above a model of the houses. There is a third one behind these two of the architect Juan O Gorman.
Juan O’Gorman was born in Coyoacán to an Irish immigrant father (a painter himself) and a Mexican mother. He became a well known architect and introduced modern functionalist architecture to Mexico.
