Frida Kahlo’s name is very well known. She is known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with themes like identity, the human body, and death. Frida was known to be wily and defiant, never one to blend into the scenery. “Everything about her, from her hairstyle to the hem of her dress, breathed a kind of roguish glee…” wrote her stepdaughter, Guadalupe Rivera.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many surreal portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She was disabled by polio as a child, and had been a promising student heading toward medical school, until she was in a bus accident at the age of 18, which had caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. Her art expressed much of the pain she felt. Kahlo died in 1954 at the age of 47. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone… because I am the subject I know best.” Kahlo expressed her mental and physical suffering through her art, using symbolism. Life experience is a common theme in Kahlo’s approximately 200 works of art.
A production named “Frida, The Musical” expected to open on Broadway in 2024 will showcase Kahlo’s life from Mexico City to Paris to New York, and back to the famous “Blue House” where she was born and died in 1954. Frida Kahlo’s family has allowed the development of the musical. It will contain music composed by the Mexican composer Jaime Lozano and lyrics by Obie Award-winning playwright Neena Beber.
The production announced that the musical will reveal “new, rarely explored layers of this most complex – and ardently Mexican – genius as it follows her journey from Mexico City to Paris and New York, and finally back home to the house of her birth for one final professional triumph.”
The merchandise about Frida Kahlo usually either depicts her as a feminist icon, or her suffering, as portrayed by her work. The goal of this production is to see her as a person, not just select aspects of her. She lived a very interesting life, and it will surely be a sight to see.
Valentina Berger, the producer, said that “Everyone knows a colder Frida, a suffering Frida, but she loved life, “She was really, really fun. That’s what we want to portray. I used to have a sad view of Frida, like, ‘Oh, the poor woman.’ Now, knowing how she was so smart and so clever, I look up to her.” The production team is approaching this with enthusiasm and high hopes.
Links:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1658696217464x382757243075349900/%27Frida%2C%20the%20Musical%27%20will%20take%20the%20painter%27s%20life%20story%20to%20Broadway%20-%20The%20Washington%20Post.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo, https://www.fridakahlo.org/, https://www.16personalities.com/articles/frida-kahlo-the-fiercest-adventurer#:~:text=Frida%20was%20known%20to%20be,wrote%20her%20stepdaughter%2C%20Guadalupe%20Rivera.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many surreal portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She was disabled by polio as a child, and had been a promising student heading toward medical school, until she was in a bus accident at the age of 18, which had caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. Her art expressed much of the pain she felt. Kahlo died in 1954 at the age of 47. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone… because I am the subject I know best.” Kahlo expressed her mental and physical suffering through her art, using symbolism. Life experience is a common theme in Kahlo’s approximately 200 works of art.
A production named “Frida, The Musical” expected to open on Broadway in 2024 will showcase Kahlo’s life from Mexico City to Paris to New York, and back to the famous “Blue House” where she was born and died in 1954. Frida Kahlo’s family has allowed the development of the musical. It will contain music composed by the Mexican composer Jaime Lozano and lyrics by Obie Award-winning playwright Neena Beber.
The production announced that the musical will reveal “new, rarely explored layers of this most complex – and ardently Mexican – genius as it follows her journey from Mexico City to Paris and New York, and finally back home to the house of her birth for one final professional triumph.”
The merchandise about Frida Kahlo usually either depicts her as a feminist icon, or her suffering, as portrayed by her work. The goal of this production is to see her as a person, not just select aspects of her. She lived a very interesting life, and it will surely be a sight to see.
Valentina Berger, the producer, said that “Everyone knows a colder Frida, a suffering Frida, but she loved life, “She was really, really fun. That’s what we want to portray. I used to have a sad view of Frida, like, ‘Oh, the poor woman.’ Now, knowing how she was so smart and so clever, I look up to her.” The production team is approaching this with enthusiasm and high hopes.
Links:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1658696217464x382757243075349900/%27Frida%2C%20the%20Musical%27%20will%20take%20the%20painter%27s%20life%20story%20to%20Broadway%20-%20The%20Washington%20Post.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo, https://www.fridakahlo.org/, https://www.16personalities.com/articles/frida-kahlo-the-fiercest-adventurer#:~:text=Frida%20was%20known%20to%20be,wrote%20her%20stepdaughter%2C%20Guadalupe%20Rivera.