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A self-taught artist from this country made lithographs like “Colossus” as a leader of the “Rupture Movement.” A regional text inspired a large, orange-toned painting held in this country in which a rainbow arcs over a “magical world.” In a self-portrait from this country, the artist sits before a white rocking-horse and holds her hand out to a hyena. (10[1])An artist from this country included a dead woodpecker lying on a tree (10[1])in a self-portrait that only shows the artist’s legs and feet in a bathtub. (10[2])This (10[1])country was the adopted home of the surrealist Leonora (10[1])Carrington. (10[1])An artist from this country referenced her teenage injury in a traffic accident (10[2])by painting herself with a broken column for a spine. For 10 points, a distinctive unibrow appears (10[1])in self-portraits by what country’s artist Frida Kahlo? ■END■

ANSWER: Mexico [or the United Mexican States or Estados Unidos Mexicanos] (The first clue refers to José Luis Cuevas. The second clue is Leonora Carrington’s The Magical World of the Mayas. The two Kahlo self-portraits are What the Water Gave Me and The Broken Column.)
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