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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. What significance does the figure of a foot have to Frida?
2. What movement has Frida been associated with?
3. What does Frida place in an icy landscape?
4. Where does Lowe write that Frida's work was first taken seriously (where she "made a decisive shift from amateur to professional painter")?
5. What does Lowe write that "naturaleza muerta" translates to in English?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the external sources that Fuentes finds for Kahlo's art?
2. In Frida's first string of words, which one is the one that Lowe singles out as the only word with a specific reference?
3. How does Fuentes compare the work of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo?
4. What is in the image that Frida labels "The Phenomenon Unforseen"?
5. Why does Frida claim she was born in 1910?
6. How does Lowe compare Kahlo's diary with "diarists, both men and women [who] have chronicled their lives framed by their times or by particular historical events"?
7. How does Lowe believe that Frida's Diary differs from most artist sketchbooks?
8. How does Frida begin her diary?
9. How does Lowe describe Frida's planning process for the images in the Diary?
10. What is automatic drawing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Lowe compares the reception of Frida's self-portraits (sometimes thought "excessively personal and self-referential") to those of Rembrant and VanGogh (who, she claims, express sentiments "considered applicable to all of 'mankind'"). Explain whether or not you believe that Frida's artistic expression is something that could be universally understood.
Essay Topic 2
Fuentes writes that Frida is intimately linked with Mexican history. He compares her physical pain to Mexico's "bloody" traumas. He also writes that she was born with the Revolution and "both mirrors and transcends the central event of twentieth-century Mexico." What evidence does Fuentes offer to support this statement? Is there any evidence of this in the Diary itself, or the pages that Frida created? Do you agree or disagree with Fuentes' statement? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Sarah M. Lowe writes that the Diary documents Frida's physical decline. Do you agree or disagree? What evidence can you find in the Diary itself? What other trends can we see in the Diary entries over time?
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