Frida Kahlo

So I went to the SF MOMA today for the Frida Kahlo exibit. Luckily, I had preordered my ticket online the day before because it was sold out when I got there. I got in a little early so I had time to check out the other galleries also but almost everyone was there for Frida Kahlo. I recommend paying $3 extra for the audio tour because it makes your experience so much better. You get a much better understanding of her life and her work because admittedly I came there without knowing anything. I learned so much within that one hour it was amazing. Honestly I came there pretty tired and sleepy because I didn't get any sleep the night before but once I began the tour it woke me up completely. One concern I have is that I wasn't able to get any picture inside her gallery because it was against policy. I did take a few in the lobby and outside the museum though so I'll just post those. The images of her artwork will be from Yahoo images.

The beginning


Me outside

Me Inside




Here's a painting she did of herself with a steel rod as her spine to represent all the surgeries that she's had. She also had nails pinned all over her body to represent her pain and her face expression is really sad. This was one of the many depressing paintings that I had to see today.



This is a painting of her nanny and Frida reflcting her childhood. They look very distant as portrayed in the nanny wearing the ancient mask and Friday is not caressing her like a baby should.


Frida portaying herself lying in a pool of blood from all the pain and suffering she's endured. This is really gruesome and scary, it kinda gave me goosebumps when I first saw it.


A real life photograph of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.


Here's one of Frida laying in bed after a miscarriage of he baby. Another unfortunate event in her dramatic life.


There was a painting that I liked alot from the show that I could not find online. It was one that shows the earth holding on to Frida while she's holding on the Diego as a baby. I find it interesting that was how she viewed him. I thought she portayed him as a dominant figure in her other paintings but in this special one she showed another perspective of her husband.