1. Unit Question What life event has had a great impact on you and how did you respond? How can you express/communicate that life event in an artwork? Area of interaction focus Health & Social Education: What social choices have you made already in your life? Significant concept(s) Communication/Expression Students will develop the skills to communicate a personal narrative visually. Unit: Self-Portrait & 3D Design

2. FRIDA KAHLO Painter of self- portraits Painter of self- portraits

3. A self-portrait is an artwork that shows the artist as the subject. The painting tells us something about who the artist is, or was. It gives us clues about the artist’s identity. Investigate Kahlo’s self-portraits to form your ideas and opinions of what her identity was.

4. Bubble Map Graphic Organizer Describe your first reaction to Frida Kahlo’s artworks. 1. What was Kahlo’s personality? 2. What feelings or emotions does her work express? 3. What kind of life do you think Kahlo lived? 4. What do you think Kahlo would have said about her paintings? Describe your first reaction to Frida Kahlo’s artworks. 1. What was Kahlo’s personality? 2. What feelings or emotions does her work express? 3. What kind of life do you think Kahlo lived? 4. What do you think Kahlo would have said about her paintings?

6. Frida Kahlo, Me and my parrots “The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint always whatever passes through my head, without any other consideration.” -Frida Kahlo

7. Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico on July 6, 1907. In 1929 Frida married a Very famous painter also from Mexico named Diego Rivera.

8. Diego By Frida

9. "Frida and Diego Rivera,The Wedding Portrait"

10. Frida Kahlo, Roots

11. "I paint self portraits because I am so often alone. Because I am the subject I know best."

12. Frida Kahlo, Little Deer

13. "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States”

14. My thoughts about Diego

16. Frida kahlo painting “The Two Fridas”

17. The Two Fridas

19. Frida Kahlo, Self Portraits with Monkey

20. Frida Kahlo, Tree of Hope

21. Frida Kahlo, The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl, 1949

22. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill