Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She suffered polio as a child and was seriously injured in a bus accident as a teenager. While recovering, she began painting and depicted her physical and emotional pain in her self-portraits. During her life she had only one solo exhibition but her works now sell for millions at auction.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She suffered polio as a child and was seriously injured in a bus accident as a teenager. While recovering, she began painting and depicted her physical and emotional pain in her self-portraits. During her life she had only one solo exhibition but her works now sell for millions at auction.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She suffered polio as a child and was seriously injured in a bus accident as a teenager. While recovering, she began painting and depicted her physical and emotional pain in her self-portraits. During her life she had only one solo exhibition but her works now sell for millions at auction.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists. She suffered polio as a child and was seriously injured in a bus accident as a teenager. While recovering, she began painting and depicted her physical and emotional pain in her self-portraits. During her life she had only one solo exhibition but her works now sell for millions at auction.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 3
Name: Class: No:
[1] Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Mexico. Her father is a German descendant and photographer. He immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde. Her mother is half Amerindian and half Spanish. Frida Kahlo has two older sisters and one younger sister.
[2] Frida Kahlo has poor health in her childhood. She contracted polio at the age of 6 and had to be bedridden for nine months. This disease caused her right leg and foot to grow much thinner than her left one. She limped after she recovered from polio. She has been wearing long skirts to cover that for the rest of her life. Her father encouraged her to do lots of sports to help her recover. She played soccer, went swimming, and even did wrestle, which is very unusual at that time for a girl. She has kept a very close relationship with her father for her whole life.
[3] On a September afternoon when Kahlo traveled on a bus, a tragic accident happened. Kahlo nearly died in the accident. She suffered multiple fractures of her spine, collarbone and ribs, a shattered pelvis, broken foot and a dislocated shoulder. To kill the time and alleviate the pain, she started painting while recovering in a body cast. In her lifetime, she had 30 operations. Her parents encouraged her to paint and made a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed.
[4] Life experience is a common theme in Kahlo's approximately 200 paintings, sketches and drawings. Her physical and emotional pain are depicted starkly on canvases, as is her turbulent relationship with her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, who she married twice. Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits. During her life, self portrait is also a subject that Frida Kahlo always returns to. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best".
[5] Kahlo did not sell many paintings in her lifetime, although she painted occasional portraits on commission. She had only one solo exhibition in Mexico in her lifetime, in 1953, just a year before her death at the age of 47.
[6] Today, her works sell for very high prices. In May 2006, Frida Kahlo self-portrait, Roots, was sold for $5.62 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, sets a record as the most expensive Latin American work ever purchased at auction, and also makes Frida Kahlo one of the highest-selling woman in art.
A. Match each of the above paragraphs with an appropriate heading.
1. Paragraph 1 A. Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks 2. Paragraph 2 B. Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions 3. Paragraph 3 C. Leonardo da Vinci’s early years 4. Paragraph 4 D. The Mona Lisa 5. Paragraph 5 E. The Last Supper 6. Paragraph 6 F. Leonardo da Vinci’s final years G. Leonardo da Vinci’s influences
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. B. Determine whether the following sentences are true or false. Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ ONLY. 1. Leonado’s father was a popular sculptor, painter and goldsmith at that time. 2. Leonardo picked up other knowledge in mechanics, carpentry, metallurgy, architectural drafting and chemistry at the age of 67. 3. Leonardo was able to create flying machines at that time. 4. Some of Leonardo’s notes were written in mirror handwriting. 5. Leonardo presents how separate the apostles are and meanwhile how united they are in The Last Supper. 6. Leonardo became inactive after he had been paralysed.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
C. Put the events in chronological order. (20% @5)
A. Leonardo da Vinci painted the famous Mona Lisa. B. Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio. C. Leonardo da Vinci left most of his works to his pupil, Francesco Melzi. D. Leonardo da Vinci completed The Last Supper in Milan.
1. 2. 3. 4.
D. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (20% @10)
1. According to the passage, what is so special about the Mona Lisa?
2. Do you agree that art is as important as science? Please explain your answer with at least 15 words.
1.
2. Answer Key:
Match each of the above paragraphs with an appropriate heading.
1. C 2. A 3. E 4. D 5. F 6. G
Determine whether the following sentences are true or false. Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ ONLY. 1. False 2. False 3. False 4. True 5. True 6. False
C. Put the events in chronological order.
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C
D. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. According to the passage, what is so special about the Mona Lisa?
The Mona Lisa is famous for its sitter’s enigmatic expression.
2. Do you agree that art is as important as science? Please explain your answer with at least 15 words.
