AP Art History: The Two Fridas -- #140
Saturday, April 23, 2022
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo
Bio of the work:
Title: The Two Fridas
Date: 1939
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Analysis:
Frida Kahlo is the most famous artist of the Mexican Revolution along with her husband, Diego Rivera. The Mexican Revolution and the art movement that followed was centered around native Mexican people reconnecting with their Indigenous roots from pre-Spanish colonization. The Two Fridas depicts two separate versions of Kahlo herself. Kahlo's father was German and her mother Indigenous. She depicts herself in traditional Mexican clothing and a Eurocentric dress. These two conflicting parts are tied together by their physical hearts. Much of Frida Kahlo's work deals with her identity as native-Mexican and German, as well as the balance between the two.
