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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 (10[1])out to a hyena. An artist from this country (-5[1])included a dead woodpecker (10[1])lying on a tree in a self-portrait that only shows the artist’s legs and feet in a bathtub. (10[2])This country was the adopted (-5[1])home of the surrealist Leonora (10[3])Carrington. An artist from this country referenced her teenage injury (10[1])in a traffic accident by painting herself with a broken column for a spine. For 10 points, a distinctive unibrow (10[2])appears in self-portraits by what country’s artist Frida Kahlo? (10[1])■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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