The Two Fridas - Frida Kahlo

"The Two Fridas," painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939, is a deeply autobiographical and emotional work that reflects her anguish after her divorce from Diego Rivera. This painting belongs to the surrealist movement, although it also has influences from the magical realism characteristic of Latin American art.

The work shows two versions of Frida sitting next to each other, with their hearts exposed and connected by a vein. Sitting to the left of the viewer, a traditional Frida, with an inherited moral structure evoked, or well directed, to donation. With a blood-stained white dress, representing the part of her that is bleeding to support the other more modern and independent Frida, dressed in blue and green, who cannot stay alive because in her personal search for the meaning of life, she has only found pain and loneliness. To the right, the self-sufficient Frida holds a small portrait of Diego Rivera, announcing that at the end of her journey she has lost everything. The traditional Frida, although weakened, holds the clamps that prevent the modern Frida from bleeding out at the expense of her own identity, showing how her past vision of the world and life still nourishes and sustains her present life.

The entire work speaks of the artist's internal struggle and her ability to translate her emotional pain into a visually striking piece of art laden with symbolism.