Frida Kahlo Bio

Which of the following is not true about artist Frida Kahlo?

• She is from Mexico City, Mexico.
• She was married to Diego Rivera twice.
• She contracted polio as a teenager.
• She was involved in a bus accident.

What subject did Kahlo study at the university?

• Art
• Politics
• Journalism
• Medicine

What experience inspired Kahlo to begin painting?

• Meeting artist Diego Rivera.
• Attending art class in college.
• Recovering from her bus accident.
• Witnessing injustice and poverty.

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Kahlo was a member of what political party?

• Mexican Communist Party
• Mexican Marxist Party
• Mexican Democratic Party
• Mexican Libertarian Party

Diego Rivera primarily created in what artistic medium?

• Pottery
• Portraits
• Sculptures
• Murals

Which of the following is not a result of Kahlo's bus accident?

• She began to paint.
• She suffered miscarriages.
• She became a political activist.
• She quit college.

Kahlo accompanied her husband to live in what 3 cities in the United States while he completed commissioned art?

• Dallas, New York, San Francisco
• New York, San Francisco, Detroit
• Detroit, Houston, New York
• San Francisco, Houston, Cleveland

Kahlo's first solo art exhibit was unsuccessful.

• True
• False

Kahlo's paintings are categorized as what genre?

• New Age
• Impressionism
• Realism
• Surrealism

Kahlo did not sell many paintings during her lifetime.

• True
• False