Frida Kahlo, her students and "La rosita"

Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Frida Kahlo, La Rosita; Photographer: unknown

1943: … Frida was anxious to give her students a chance to get started in mural art themselves. In the middle of 1943 she obtained permission for her students to decorate the wall of a tavern, the Pulqueria La Rosita, located a short distance from the Casa Azul. Two years later, Frida arranged a second mural commission for her students: the walls of a laundry facility, one of the public works of the Lazaro Cardenas administration. At Frida's urging, her students participated in exhibitions, where the political content of their work sometimes caused them trouble with the public, but never with Diego and Frida. The couple was also supportive when "Los Fridos" joined other students to found the Revolutionary Young Artists, a group that organized exhibitions in public parks and gardens so that their artwork could be seen by workers and the poor.

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Notwithstanding the physical and spiritual closeness of Frida and her students over the years, not one of them claims to have ever seen her paint. She brought out her canvases from the studio when the class had critiques, or she would invite the students to come inside and see her work in progress. But when she painted, she worked in isolation.

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Here some impressions about the work and the final celebration of that project:  

Kunstmuseum Gehrke-Remund, Frida Kahlo, La Rosita; Photographer: unknown

Frida Kahlo and her students 1943: Photographer unknown

La Rosita - some years later ….

Photographer of this photo serie: 1943, unknown