Sunday, March 16, 2008

Frida Kahlo - Philadelphia Art Museum


As we waited to wait in line for the exhibition two weeks ago, we walked around the museum checking out other works of art. Of course the first painting I noticed is of a bike race! Antonio Ruiz, 1987-1964, Mexican Bike Race. A beautiful ceramic fireplace - I want to say from France. Once our time slot opened, we entered the Frida exhibition. Brad lasted three minutes as there were too many people in one space. He was having issues all day as he was breaking museum rules left and right. (No umbrellas, cannot talk on the cell phone, no sitting on the step-ledge...) I tried to be creative by starting in the middle of the exhibition but it didn't really work. I eventually went back to the beginning and tried to do a power preview of the artwork. The first part were original photographs rarely displayed of Frida's early life with family. The later rooms mingled photographs with Frida's paintings.