Frida Kahlo Exhibition Response from Michelle Byeon
Frida Kahlo Exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum was very impressive to me. At first, all of her clothes were about her idea about Mexico, government, and relationships between other countries. Her fashion items related to Mexico’s traditional clothes style were expressing her idea that she considered Mexico’s tradition as important of protection needed. In my opinion, I think using her identity as Mexican and putting her idea about her country into her artworks such as clothes or photos of her portraits. I saw one of pull set of top and skirt with Mexico’s traditional style that containing her identity that was very beautiful with the color of Mexico. Also, the earrings that made by her husband, and herself was impressive about the detail because I did not know how people can be that detailed in that time. Almost all of her jewelry made by her were worn by her in photos of her portraits. Looking at the photos of Frida Kahlo and observing them was an interesting part of this exhibition that I really enjoyed.
Frida by Ishiuchi, #2 (© Ishiuchi Miyako, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery)
This object was an interesting thing to look closely because corset for Frida Kahlo means lots of thing such as her life story. Also, she made a lot of artworks that related to her accident and her baby into a corset art.
For me, the leather corset was interesting to look at because the design of it was thoughtful and elegant.
