Self-study
P1
Painter Frida Kahlo (1910–1954) often used harrowing images derived from her Mexican heritage to express suffering caused by a disabling accident and a stormy marriage. ██████████ ████ ████████ ███ █████████ ████████ ███ ████████████ ██ ████ █████████████████████ ████ ████████████ ███████████████ █████ █████ █████████ ███████ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ███ █████ ███ ██ ██████ █████████ ████████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ███ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████████ ███ ██ ███████████ █████████ ███ ████████ █████████
Intro topic ·
Political content of Kahlo's paintings
Personal and emotional content of her paintings have been studied. But Kahlo used art to express political ideas, too.
P2
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Kahlo's influences ·
Marxism and Mexican nationalism
Mexican nationalism identified the Aztecs as the last independent indigenous rulers of Mexico.
Kahlo's art ·
Mexicanidad: romantic nationalism revering the Aztecs and their communal labor
P3
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Elaborate on Kahlo's art ·
Used Aztec symbols to represent Mexican struggle to emerge as nation
Example ·
Self-Portrait combined Aztec symbols and modern images associatd with the United States
(Come back to this part for details on specific symbols and images used.)
P4
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More about Kahlo's art ·
Highlighted clash between materialism and indigenous tradition; art was accessible
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
6.
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Question Type
Describe organization
Structure
Think about your low-res summary of P3. The paragraph gives us an example of symbols in Kahlo’s work and what they mean.
a
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The paragraph as a whole isn’t structure to present opposing ideas. Rather, we get a description of symbols in Kahlo’s work and what they mean. Although one painting presents contrasting societies (highly industrialized U.S. vs. agricultural Mexico), this doesn’t make the whole paragraph a contrast of opposing ideas. The opposition in the painting is part of the meaning of the painting, but “opposing ideas” doesn’t capture the structure of the paragraph.
b
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The paragraph as a whole doesn’t reconcile conflicting ideas. Rather, we get a description of symbols in Kahlo’s work and what they mean. Although one painting presents contrasting societies (highly industrialized U.S. vs. agricultural Mexico), this doesn’t make the whole paragraph a reconciliation of conflicting ideas. The opposition in the painting is part of the meaning of the painting, but “conflicting concepts” doesn’t capture the structure of the paragraph.
c
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The paragraph doesn’t focus on the relationship between complementary themes. The focus is on one theme — the Mexican struggle to emerge as a nation and how Kahlo’s work shows that theme through its symbols and images. Although the author does mention that Kahlo’s work also shows her “personal battle for life,” the author doesn’t focus on the “interrelation” between this aspect of Kahlo’s work and the Mexican nationalistic aspect of her work. The fact the author brings another theme up does not imply that the paragraph as a whole involves the relationship between multiple themes.
d
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We don’t get any general principle in P3. We get examples of images in Kahlo’s work and what they mean.
e
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This is the best answer. The generalization is that Kahlo “repeatedly employed Aztec symbols, such as skeletons or bleeding hearts, that were traditionally related to the emanation of life from death and light from darkness.” We get an example of Kahlo’s use of these symbols in the rest of the paragraph (Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico and the United States).