Source: WTL research files.
Painting: "Las dos Fridas" (The Two Fridas, 1939).
Comments: In 1939, Frida Kahlo travels to Paris, where she exhibits some of her works, and where she meets Surrealist artists and writers. At the end of this year, she and Diego are divorced. She painted this canvas after her divorce. She is dressed in two different outfits: on the right she is wearing a Mexican-style dress (un traje de Tehuana), and on the left she is wearing a European-style outfit.
Humanities Questions: It seems the artist is showing us her two personalities. (A) What are the two personalities? (B) What does the background suggest? (C) Which of the two personas did Diego Rivera prefer? (D) Which one is bleeding to death?