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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following techniques does Lowe write that Kahlo used?
2. What does Lowe claim was the guiding principal behind Surrealism?
3. How does Fuentes characterize the kinds of escapes from reality Andre Breton "was legislating as law" in France compared to Latin America?
4. What "path" does Lowe write that Frida illuminates in this Diary?
5. What object in one of her paintings is explained in Kahlo's letter to Lamba?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sarah M. Lowe describe Frida's intentions in creating her Diary? Given Frida's intentions, how does she understand the "act" of reading the Diary?
2. What does Kahlo connect to ink, and why does Lowe write that this is illuminating "with respect to her own creativity"?
3. What device does Lowe claim that Frida frequently uses? (She uses this for human forms, roots, and other organic figures.)
4. How does Fuentes compare the work of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?
5. In what ways does Fuentes write that Kahlo mirrors the Revolution in her art?
6. Who does Kahlo create a double portrait of? What images surround the portrait?
7. On what kind of body does Frida create a two-headed bull figure?
8. How does Lowe believe that Frida's Diary differs from most artist sketchbooks?
9. What characterized Frida's "poetry"?
10. What is automatic drawing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After Frida's death, her fame grew immensely. Can you identify any of the reasons for her popularity in the Diary itself?
Essay Topic 2
Toward the end of Kahlo's diary, Lowe notes "Kahlo pairs a powerful modern political system -- Communism -- with an ancient, longer-lived regime -- the Aztec empire." In what other ways does she use pre-Columbian words and imagery? What overall effect does this have on her work? How does it effect her identity?
Essay Topic 3
How does Kahlo's early interest in physiology and biology affect her art? What does Lowe write is her most common biological and botanical metaphor? How do you see this used throughout the Diary?
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