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FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954)Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter. Her colourful paintings show her powerful feelings about herself and the world around her. Some of her recent fans include Madonna and Robert de Niro.LIFEHer life began and ended in Mexico City. When Kahlo was six years old, she had a serious disease (polio) that damaged her right leg forever. However, she was a clever and determined young woman and went to one of the top schools in Mexico. When she was fifteen, she met the famous painter Diego Rivera. He was doing a painting on a wall at her school at that time. Then, at the age of eighteen, Kahlo was in a terrible accident. She was travelling on a bus when a train crashed into it. She began to paint while she was recovering from the accident because she was bored in bed. During the rest of her life she had over 30 operations to try to correct her physical problems.In 1929, she married Diego Rivera but their relationship was often stormy. Soon after she got married, Kahlo started to wear traditional Mexican clothes and jewellery, and she also started to wear her hair high on her head. She visited the United States and France, and met many important people. While she was staying in Paris, she appeard on the front cover of Vogue magazine. When she wasn`t working, she liked singing and telling jokes at parties.WORKKahlo produced about 200 works in her life. Many of them were self-portaits, a mix of dreams and reality. In them, we can see that she was very proud of Mexico. Her paintings also tell us about politics, power relationships between rich and poor countries, Eastern and Western philosophy and the position of women in society. Many people admired her work, including Pablo Picasso. Decide if these sentences are TRUE or FALSE.CORRECT the FALSE ones at the end of this exercise.1. Frida Kahlo had a good education. TRUE FALSE 2. She had two very bad experiences when she was young. TRUE FALSE 3. She was on a tram when a bus crash into it. TRUE FALSE 4. She started painting when she met Diego Rivera. TRUE FALSE 5. She traveled a lot in Mexico. TRUE FALSE 6. People didn`t think she was a talented painter TRUE FALSE Correct the false statements here. Answer the following questions:1. When was Frida Kahlo born and when did she die? 2. What kind of disease did she have when she was young and how did it affect her? 3. How old was Frida when she met Diego Rivera and how did they meet? 4. What happened to Frida at the age of eighteen? 5. What clothes did she start wearing after she married Diego Rivera? 6. How many works did she produce and how were her paintings? What do her paintings tell us?