Kahlo y Rivera

I'm a true fan of Frida Kahlo, I have been captured by her personality years ago, but have to confess that it happened just after the first mexican movie realesed during the 80's, so now I'm a part of the crowd that loves her. I'm proud that she is mexican and expressed her-self in a very mexican way, she was self-taught and very independet from her famous husband work, by the way, he made murals of big dimensions and she painted in some kind of small way.

So, to see the house of Frida Kahlo, " la casa azul" , we headed to Coyoacan, a neighbourhood located in the south of the city, it was a saturday and the typical stroll by the park of Coyoacan was a little confused, too many people in dark clothes, shiny things and well-gelatinized hair (punketos as we say), so I recommend not to go to that place in saturday or sunday, unless you want to buy "art-crafts" from the people around. By the way, all this kind of stands multiplied during the last years, and have invaded all walking places of the plaza on weekends.

The blue house, where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, painted, hosted Trotsky for a while and died is now a museum, a big bulding located at the corner of the streets of Londres and Allende, not far from the park. It recreates her way of life with Diego Rivera, you can see inside some of her paintings, some of her typical dresses, her diary, her famous bed with the mirror, the corsets she used after so many operations of the back.

Bad to the visitors of the place, you can't take pictures from inside the house, that is frustrating. Outdoors there are a nice garden, a pyramid, big papers dolls Diego and Frida had for easter time and a little cafeteria.

In the blue house still we can see belongings of Diego in exhibition too, but his paintings can be admired mostly in public buildings, since they are murals.


Specially I wanted the kids to see a mural called "Paseo Dominical en la Alameda Central". They know it because we have a poster. The mural represents history of Mexico. To see it we went down-town, the museum is located just next to Alameda Central, before the earthquake of 1986 the mural was in a hotel, unfortunately, the hotel was destroyed, luckily the mural didn't and went to a special site, the museum.

When we entered into the big room the kids were really surprised about the size of the mural, and Bidane said QUE GRANDE ES... It is so big. Indeed.