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. As Kahlo and Rivera were supporters of the communist Russian Revolution (1917), in the 1930s they supported Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), whom Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR, had exiled from Russian in 1929. Later, they became friends with Trotsky and invited him and his wife to live with them in the Casa Azul in 1937. Frida had an affair with Trotsky, upon which Trotsky and his wife moved to another house in Coyoacán, where he was assassinated in 1940. Kahlo and Rivera then turned their support to Stalin.
Here are two images from 1938. On the left is a photograph of Kahlo with Trotsky; on the right is a color photo with a similar hairdo and a small Olmec figurine:

Humanities Questions: In the painting above 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? Leon Trotsky? (D) Which one is bleeding to death?