Fans of iconic Mexican artistFrida Kahlohave a lot of fresh stuff to sift through , thanks to Google ’s launching of the largest - ever digital expo of artworks and artifacts related to the Felis concolor . As reported by , the “ Faces of Frida ” retrospective and its 800 - point collection were the result of a collaboration between the Google Arts & Culture platform and 33 museums around the world .
Visitors to the website can peruse rarefied artworks from individual collections that had never been digitize until now , includingView of New York , a sketch Kahlo made in 1932 while staying at the former Barbizon - Plaza Hotel . There are also personal photographs of Kahlo , as well as letter and journal ledger entry that she compose .
Using Street View , you’re able to even see inside the “ Blue House ” where she lived in Mexico City . Another characteristic lets visitor whizz in on in high spirits - resolution painting , which were created using Google ’s Art Camera , according todesignboom .
For Google executive , the decision to celebrate the spirit and oeuvre of Kahlo was a no - brainer . “ Frida ’s name keep coming up as a top contender when we started to think of what artist would be the best to feature in a retrospective , ” Jesús Garcia , Google ’s head of Latino communications , toldForbes . “ There ’s so much of her that was not known and could still be explored from an artistic perspective and life sentence experience . ”
An original artwork by multimedia creative person Alexa Meade was especially commission for “ Faces of Frida . ” Photographer Cristina Kahlo , Kahlo ’s great - niece , aided in the cognitive operation . Check out the picture below to see how she brought Kahlo ’s nontextual matter to sprightliness in a livelihood , breathing painting .
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