A new book by Taschen includes an exploration of the cobalt-blue home that was the “artistic and aesthetic universe that nurtured Kahlo’s work.”
A Portrait of Frida Kahlo in the courtyard of La Casa Azul by Florence Arquin.
“Painted in blue, inside out, it seems to host a bit of sky,” modernist Mexican poet Carlos Pellicer once wrote of La Casa Azul, the longtime home ofIt’s where the artist was born, where she grew up, and where she returned as her career as a world-famous artist flourished at the same time as her marriage with Diego Rivera fell apart. And it’s where, at the age of 47, she died from pulmonary embolism after a painful life plagued with health problems.
As a result, the reader gets an unprecedented glimpse into the historical haven of not only Kahlo and Rivera, but a whole cohort of the mid-20th century’s volatile vanguard: Trotsky lived there for two years after his expulsion from Russia and, for a short period, so did Nobel Prize in Literature winner Octavio Paz. “Kahlo built an idyllic and aesthetic environment at the Casa Azul,” says Lozano. “It was a unique, cosmopolitan environment and a vision of universal culture.
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