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Zócalo is the common name of the main square in central Mexico City. Prior to the colonial period, it was the main ceremonial center in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. The plaza used to be known simply as the "Main Square" (Plaza Mayor) or "Arms Square" (Plaza de Armas), and today its formal name is Plaza de la Constitución (Constitution Square)
This painting was part of two milestones in Kahlo's early career it was included in her first solo show, at Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938, and her first exhibition in Europe, Mexique, held in Paris in 1939. It features a decorative. artisanal frame that Kahlo likely purchased at a market. Such frames were often used in Mexican culture for ex-votos, or religious offerings. Kahlo combined the frame, its glazing already adorned with flowers and birds, with her own painted self-portrait rendered on a sheet of aluminum. The resulting object is a collaborative artwork with connections to popular Mexican traditions as well as to found sculpture, a strong area of interest among Kahlo's Surrealist contemporaries.
Frida Kahlo, Mexican (1907-1954). Oil on aluminum in artisanal frame with painted glass, 1938.
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, state purchase, 1939 (Art Institute of Chicago. On loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for the exhibition 'Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Renolds'.
