Activity of text interpretation, aimed at seventh-year students, about the book “Frida Kahlo: uma biografia”. Mexican Frida Kahlo is now one of the most popular artists in the world. Her paintings reach record values, and her face is recognized around the planet. Do you want to get to know this great painter better? So, be sure to read the text carefully. An artist full of life, a life full of colors! Afterwards, don't forget to answer the various interpretative questions proposed! Come on guys?
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María Hesse – Translation by Alexandre Boide
An artist full of life, a life full of colors
Mexican Frida Kahlo is now one of the most popular artists in the world. Her paintings reach record highs, and her face is recognized around the planet. Her short life, however, was fascinating and eventful.
And no less. Frida had to deal from a very early age with a congenital physical disability, and, as a teenager, she suffered the well-known accident that nearly killed her and left her months in a bed, where she then began to paint pictures lying down, many of them self-portraits. Despite her failing health, she went ahead and married the great painter Diego Rivera, twenty years her senior, with whom she had a intense and turbulent relationship: “I suffered two serious accidents in my life, one in which a bus threw me on the ground… Another accident is Diego”. She drank from the source of the richest traditional Mexican culture and with long, colorful clothes disguised her lame step, constantly reinventing herself as a woman and an artist. She suffered several miscarriages, saw her desire to be a mother frustrated, lived unspeakable betrayals, had many loves - including women -, she was feminist in a sexist Latin America, lover of Trotsky, of whose murder she was suspected, and conquered the world with her art and her story.
María Hesse, Spanish graphic artist, offers us here a beautiful illustrated biography that presents, interwoven, the life and work of Frida Kahlo, including excerpts from her diaries, letters and depositions. The book reveals the pains and delights of her existence, but also how she used art to overcome the limitations that conditions imposed on her and reinvent her own existence. The result is a poetic, lapidary work that gives voice to one of the most interesting figures of the 20th century.
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Question 1 - The text read is:
( ) a biography
( ) a review
( ) an opinion article
Question 2 - In “An artist full of life, a life full of colors”, to whom does the author of the above text refer?
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Question 3 – In the excerpt “Frida had to deal from a very early age with a physical disability […]”, the highlighted expression expresses:
( ) a wish from Frida.
( ) a promise made by Frida.
( ) an obligation in Frida's life.
Question 4 – The quotation marks stand out in the text:
( ) a speech by the artist Frida Kahlo.
( ) a speech by the graphic artist María Hesse.
( ) a speech by the person who wrote the text above.
Question 5 - The adjectives "intense" and "turbulent" characterize:
( ) Frida Kahlo's health.
( ) traditional Mexican culture.
( ) Frida Kahlo's relationship with Diego Rivera.
Question 6 – Look carefully at the passages. Then point to the one in which the author presents an opinion about “Frida Kahlo: a biography”:
( ) “Mexican Frida Kahlo is now one of the most popular artists in the world.”
() “Despite her fragile health, she went ahead and married the great painter […]”
( ) “[…] a beautiful illustrated biography that presents, intertwined, life and work […]”
Question 7 – In the segment “[…] he disguised his lame step, reinventing himself constantly as a woman and an artist.”, the underlined word could be replaced by:
( ) voluntarily
( ) continuously
( ) sporadically
Question 8 – In the part “The book reveals the pains and delights of his existence, but also how he used art […]”, “but also” indicates:
( ) the sum of ideas.
( ) the contrast between ideas.
( ) the explanation of the ideas.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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