Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera | My night / La mia notte, 1939

Lettera di Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera,
Città del Messico, 12 settembre 1939
Mai spedita!

La mia notte mi strema.

Sa bene che mi manchi e tutta la sua oscurità non basta a nascondere quest’evidenza che brilla come una lama nel buio, la mia notte vorrebbe avere ali per volare fino a te, avvolgerti nel sonno e ricondurti a me.

Nel sonno mi sentiresti vicina e senza risvegliarti le tue braccia mi stringerebbero.

La mia notte non porta consiglio.

La mia notte pensa a te, come un sogno a occhi aperti.

La mia notte si intristisce e si perde.

Octavio Ocampo, 1943 | Optical Illusion painter

Octavio Ocampo (born 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican surrealist painter.

He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood.

At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals.

In high school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and the City Hall of Celaya.

Jesús Helguera (1910-1971)

Mexican painter Jesús Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza, was born to spanish economist Alvaro Garcia Helguera and Maria Espinoza Escarzarga in Chihuahua, Mexico.

He lived his childhood in Mexico City and later moved to Córdoba in the state of Veracruz.

His family fled from the Mexican Revolution to Ciudad Real, Castilla la Nueva, Spain and thereafter moved to Madrid.

Jesús first gained interest in the arts during primary school and would often be found wandering the halls of the Del Prado Museum.

At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes and later studied at the Academia de San Fernando.

Frida Kahlo | Non ti chiedo di darmi un bacio..

I'm not asking you to kiss me,

nor apologize to me when I think you're wrong.

I won't even ask you to hug me when I need it most.

I don't ask you to tell me how beautiful I am,

even if it's a lie, nor write me anything beautiful.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1887-1957)

Diego Rivera, in full Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, (born December 8, 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico—died November 25, 1957, Mexico City), Mexican painter whose bold large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America.

A government scholarship enabled Rivera to study art at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City from age 10, and a grant from the governor of Veracruz enabled him to continue his studies in Europe in 1907. He studied in Spain and in 1909 settled in Paris, where he became a friend of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and other leading modern painters.

About 1917 he abandoned the Cubist style in his own work and moved closer to the Post-Impressionism of Paul Cézanne, adopting a visual language of simplified forms and bold areas of colour.

Mexican Art History and Sitemap

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi - Io ti cielo, 1947

Various types of visual arts developed in the geographical area now known as Mexico.

The development of these arts roughly follows the history of Mexico, divided into the pre hispanic Mesoamerican era, the colonial period, with the period after Mexican War of Independence, the development Mexican national identity through art in the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).

Frida Kahlo | Quotes /Aforismi

• "Il surrealismo è la magica sorpresa di trovare un leone in quell’armadio in cui si voleva prendere una camicia".
• "Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts".
• "La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.
• "Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interior".
• "Bellezza e bruttezza sono un miraggio perché gli altri finiscono per vedere la nostra interiorità".

Gabriel Pacheco, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Gabriel Pacheco is an Mexican painter🎨 and illustrator, known for working in the Surreal Visionary style.

Born in the City of Mexico in 1973, Gabriel studied scenography at the National Fine Arts Academy.

He has given several design workshops at the ENAP and illustration courses for children books in Mexico, Italy and Spain.

He began his career as an illustrator when his sister asked him to illustrate a story for her.