Picturesque Jouneys

In Paragraph 3: Frida Kahlo was born in (a)   in the town of (b)   , outside Mexico City, Mexico. Her father was (c)   , and her mother was of (d)   and Mexican Indian descent. Kahlo’s diverse background helped define both her (e)   and her vision of the world.

• 1907
• Coyoacán
• Hungarian
• Spanish
• identity
• Home
• Women
• Author

In Paragraph 9: In the painting, Kahlo is wearing a traditional (a)   dress and holding the ​ (b)   . The Mexico side of the painting shows a traditional Mexican landscape. It has warm, (c)   colors, exotic plants, and pieces of (d)   sculpture and mythology.

• Mexican
• earthy
• Aztec
• Mexican flag
• American Flag
• Space
• Sharp

In Paragraph 15: O’Keeffe was born in (a)   in the rural town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her parents were (b)   of Irish and ​ (c)   backgrounds. O’Keeffe grew up in a (d)   , surrounded by trees, wildflowers, and grasslands.

• 1887
• dairy farmers
• farmhouse
• Hungarian
• American
• Flowers
• Trailers

In Paragraph 20: In 1915, she began a series of (a)   drawings. Abstract art is a painting or other art form that doesn’t try to show people, places, or things in a (b)   way. The new style of these ​ (c)   represented her breakup with​ (d)   . Soon she became one of the first American artists to practice a purely abstract style of art.

• abstract
• realistic
• realism
• artworks
• figurative
• impressionism
• landscapes

In Paragraph 28: O’Keeffe continued traveling and ​ (a)   new places. Some of her artworks reflected these journeys. She painted lava bridges in ​ (b)   , the mountain peaks of Peru, and Mount ​ (c)   in Japan. O’Keeffe was ​ (d)   to big, open spaces, so her work often includes paintings of clouds and endless skies.

• discovering
• Hawaii
• Fuji
• attracted
• ignoring
• Alaska
• Kilimanjaro

Paragraph 31: Gauguin was born in (a)   , (b)   , in (c)   . His family left Paris to move to South America while he was still very young. Paul spent his childhood in (d)   , (e)   , surrounded by South American pottery and other objects that his mother loved.

• Paris
• France
• 1848
• Lima
• Peru
• Pottery
• Mother

In Paragraph 34: In 1882, the ​ (a)   crashed in France, and Gauguin lost his job. He decided to take the risk of becoming a ​ (b)   He moved to ​ (c)   , in the north of France.

• stock market
• Brittany
• full-time painter.
• France
• Risk

In Paragraph 41: ​ (a)   also was inspired by the history and the stories of the Pacific Islands. He began to add ​ (b)   of these stories, such as​ (c)   symbols, to his paintings. His style began to break away more and more from the​ (d)  

• Gauguin
• religious
• elements
• traditions of European art.
• Style
• Art
• Paintings

Frida ​ (a)   , Georgia ​ (b)   , and Paul​ (c)   are among the many artists whose works have been ​ (d)   by their journeys. It is impossible to imagine how different these​ (e)   and art, would have been if they had never traveled.

• Kahlo
• O’Keeffe
• Gauguin
• influenced
• Art
• Traveled
• artists’ lives,
• Imagination