Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Brooklyn Museum | February 15, 2019
Frida on a Friday...
Jennifer D. Laws attends the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum on February 15, 2019
After a long week, an interesting Valentine's Day, and disdainfully watching 45 declare a national emergency to fund a border wall, I decided to start the long holiday weekend off right and unwind with an art exhibit. I went to the Brooklyn Museum's website in an attempt to secure a ticket to see Frida Kahlo on Saturday morning only to realize they were all sold out for Saturday and Sunday, but they had 1, yep just 1 timed ticket remaining for the 5:30pm viewing today. Wondering if I would make it in time after work since it's about 30 minutes away from my apartment via subway, at that moment I received an IM from my manager that I was free to log out today at 3:00pm if production allows. All of the event requests assigned to me were completed yesterday, and it's been slow all day today. She told me to enjoy the weekend, and I returned the same well wishes in kind then I promptly logged out. I can make the exhibit on time!
This is just what the doctor ordered...
This is just what the doctor ordered...
Excerpt from Brooklyn Museum's website...
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s unique and immediately recognizable style was an integral part of her identity. Kahlo came to define herself through her ethnicity, disability, and politics, all of which were at the heart of her work. Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving is the largest U.S. exhibition in ten years devoted to the iconic painter and the first in the United States to display a collection of her clothing and other personal possessions, which were rediscovered and inventoried in 2004 after being locked away since Kahlo’s death, in 1954. They are displayed alongside important paintings, drawings, and photographs from the celebrated Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art, as well as related historical film and ephemera. To highlight the collecting interests of Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, works from our extensive holdings of Mesoamerican art are also included.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s unique and immediately recognizable style was an integral part of her identity. Kahlo came to define herself through her ethnicity, disability, and politics, all of which were at the heart of her work. Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving is the largest U.S. exhibition in ten years devoted to the iconic painter and the first in the United States to display a collection of her clothing and other personal possessions, which were rediscovered and inventoried in 2004 after being locked away since Kahlo’s death, in 1954. They are displayed alongside important paintings, drawings, and photographs from the celebrated Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art, as well as related historical film and ephemera. To highlight the collecting interests of Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, works from our extensive holdings of Mesoamerican art are also included.
Pictures of the exhibit are not allowed, but I did manage to snap one that shows off her signature red scarf. I'm a rebel... lol
Top Left: Frida wearing the famous earrings given to her by Pablo Picasso | Bottom Left: Frida in Front of the Cactus Fence, San Ángel, 1938 | Top Right: Portrait of Frida Kahlo | Bottom Right: Portrait of Frida Kahlo wearing her signature red scarf
Upon exiting the exhibit, I saw this cool quote light installation...
276. But don't we at least mean something quite definite when we look at a colour and name our colour-impression? It is as if we detached the colour-impression from the object, like a membrane. (This ought to arouse our suspicions.)
Seems very fitting...