C. There's a story that says the artist Pablo Picasso started to draw before he learned to speak. While this is probably only a story, it shows how much Picasso valued art. Picasso did amazing things like painting with his fingers, drawing with a nail and even making a bull's head from a bicycle. His studio was full of paint cans, brushes, chalk and other art stuff. It looked messy to some, but to Picasso, it was all inspiring! Sometimes his paintings were happy with warm colours like pink, and other times, they were sad and lonely with cool colours like dark blue. He sometimes painted people and animals the way they looked. But more often he painted them from his imagination. Picasso with his friend Georges Braque made a style of art called Cubism. They painted people and things so that you could see all parts and sides at the same time. They used simple shapes like squares and cubes to make great pictures, |  | D. Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's life was filled with struggles. Frida grew up in a bright blue house called La Casa Azul with her parents and sisters. When Kahlo was six years old, she had polio - an illness that kept her right leg from growing. Then, at 18, she was in a terrible bus accident. She survived but broke lots of bones. Many of her paintings from that time show her pain and her powerful feelings about herself and the world. However, the bright colours in her art show Kahlo's positive thinking. Famous artists like Pablo Picasso admired her work. In the spring of 1953, Kahlo had the only exhibition of her work in Mexico. She died one year later. Today her house in Coyoacán is the Frida Kahlo Museum.

3 | Look at the paintings. Refer to the text and find who they were painted by. Explain why you think so. |

4 | Talk with a partner about what makes a painting special. Discuss the options below and agree on the most important one. • colours • feelings and emotions • story behind it • personal connection (a painting that reminds you of something special in your life)