Frida Kahlo

Themes:
Paternal Grandparents
Father and Daughter
Rousseau
Unfinished Family Tree
La Casa Azul
Cactus Flower
Fetus
Parents
Nazi Genealogical Charts
The Drawing

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Frida Kahlo (1907Ð1954)
My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree), 1936
Oil and tempera on metal panel, 12 1/8 x 13 5/8" (30.7 x 34.5 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of Allan Roos, M. D., and B. Mathieu Roos, 1976
© 2003 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust.
Av Cinco de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F.
Digital image © 2003 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.


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mouse over these details of the painting below to learn more	"Me in the middle of this house, when I was about two years old. The whole house is in perspective as I remember it. On top of the house in the clouds are my father and mother when they were married (portraits taken from photographs). The ribbon about me and my mother's waist becomes an umbilical cord and I become a fetus. On the right, the paternal grandparents, on the left the maternal grandparents. A ribbon circles all the group — symbolic of the family relation. The German grandparents are symbolized by the sea, the Mexican by the earth." Frida Kahlo - La Casa Azul, Coyoacán, May 27, 1939