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Brazilians 'Freak Out' to See Frida Kahlo's Artwork

  • A woman looks at paintings from Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during a preview tour of a new exhibition at the Casa Azul Museum in Mexico City July 4, 2007.

    A woman looks at paintings from Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera during a preview tour of a new exhibition at the Casa Azul Museum in Mexico City July 4, 2007. | Photo: Reuters

Published 5 November 2015
Opinion

People in Brazil make long lines everyday to see the Mexican artist’s exhibition which includes 20 paintings and 13 drawings.

 

More than 200,000 people have visited the exhibit “Frida Kahlo: Connections with Surreal Women in Mexico” at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. 

The exhibit, which opened on Sept. 23, has already broken attendance records and has become a “breakthrough” in the institution's history, said its director Teresa Arq. 

Brazilians make long lines everyday to see the exhibition, which includes 20 paintings and 13 drawings by the globally famous Mexican painter who is best known for her self-portraits. There are also works of other Mexican surreal artists like Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. 

The Mexican artworks were brought to Brazil through a cultural exchange agreement between the two countries. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 10 and is curated by the Mexican National Council for Culture and Arts.

The Tomie Ohtake Institute said they expect up to a million visitors to contemplate and enjoy Frida’s work, surpassing Dali’s exhibition, which received 400,000 visitors last year. 

RELATED: Mexican Pays Tribute to Frida Kahlo 60 Years after Her Death

 

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