Notes on how to write an artist research paper

7th and 8th grade students! Here is the example paper with the notes for your artist research paper due at the end of the week.

(title)
Frida Kahlo

(1st paragraph)
Frida Kahlo was born in 1914 in Mexico. Her parents …. . Kahlo created surreal paintings that she often called not her own dreams but her reality.
- Name of the artist
- Year they were born
- Where they were born
- Who were their parents
- What type of art did they create (name of the type of work and the medium)
- How did the artist view their artwork

(2nd Paragraph)
Kahlo’s paintings are often about her own pain and suffering from an accident she had as a child. You can see this through her painting the Broken Column.
-What was the artist’s artwork about?
-Where can you find examples of this?

(3rd Paragraph)
After much pain and suffering from her accident and her marriage to Diego Rivera. Frida died in 1945 causing much heart break and sadness to the art world as well as her husband Rivera. Kahlo’s art work can be seen not only as pain and suffering but an expression of her life.
- Summing up the artist’s life
- Making a final call on their art work.
- Any other small facts that work within the essay.