TATE MODERN
Wherever you start your trip to this flagship of a museum, exit the tube at St. Paul's Cathedral to get a view of St. Paul's majestic building, A 15 minutewalk across Millennium Bridge will offer a view of the Thames and take you straight into the arms of Tate Modern, opened to the public in 2000. I entered via Turbine Hall entrance, Level 0. Admission is free except for special exhibitions like Frida Kahlo, Tracy Emin and Julio Le Park. Members can enter special exhibitions free and it is well worth to pay $8.00 per month or $84.- per year for a membership. I don't live here year-round, a membership would not pay for itself unless I visited at least four special exhibitions but there are so many other places to tour in London and so little time that I have not had a chance to contribute to our cooking blog.
Today, I had the opportunity to visit the amazing Frida Kahlo exhibition. There is nothing temperate about Frida Kahlo, there is only passion and pain, ardor and anguish. Conflicting emotions all bundled up behind a unibrow. The exhibition shows her unwavering and often obsessive dedication to her art. Her quest to find healing after polio and a devastating accident caused her to live in pain for most of her life. There is a deep commitment to her indigenous Mexican heritage.
"Viva la Vida," translated "The Joy of Life", painted in 1954, was Frida Kahlo's last work. Into sadness, she sowed joy, into despair hope , she gave us the extraordinay and like so many artists before her, in dying ,Frida Kahlo's art was born to eternal life.
naverin
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