The artwork I chose was 4.9.18b (p. 676) Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas. This artwork was created by Frida Kahlo herself in 1939. The dimensions are 5'8" X 5'8", the medium is an oil on canvas. You can find this wonderful piece at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico. All this was found in my class book “Gateways to Art Understanding the Visual Arts” page 676. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original EssayFormal Analysis: When you first look at this painting, your eyes go straight to the clasped hands. This shows that both Fridas are connected to each other. Both hearts are shown but one heart is open while the other is closed. Surgical scissors try to stop bleeding from the vein coming from the heart. As Frida holds the scissors, she bleeds all over her European dress, which shows that she was empty and drained. The sky behind the two Fridas is dark and stormy, which has to do with the element of color. Frida on the left is seen holding a small portrait of her ex-husband Diego Rivera. Frida includes her family background, her ex-husband, and her physical pain in this painting. Psychological analysis: The Two Fridas was created after her divorce from her ex-husband Diego Rivera and in a difficult moment in her life when she had been involved in a collision during a bus trip. Before marrying and divorcing Diego Rivera, Frida learned the hard way what pain was and not just on a mental level. Before the bus accident that left her with an injury that left her disabled, she suffered from polio that affected her right foot. While she was recovering, her father was the one who brought her art supplies and that's where it all started. You can see the pain he caused her by dividing her between both of her backgrounds, making her torn and bleeding. In all of Frida's works you can see the truth and pain in all the people she painted, and you can also see all the emotion that Frida puts into her artwork. The elements I found when looking at this painting are color, texture, volume, line and volume. I say this because the colors that Frida used to differentiate the left Frida from the right show how one side feels closer to her European side while the other is closer to her Mexican side, so it's as if she feels separated from the two . He also used a darker color tone for the background of his painting which shows us an apocalyptic scenario. The value of this painting is that it is two dimensional but when you look at it it has depth, like in the skirts and tops that Frida wears, the light and dark make it look three dimensional. The line shown is the connection of the hearts from his European side to his Mexican side and how it intertwines with his left arm. The texture you can see is that of the white top of her European outfit. The principles I found when looking at The Two Fridas were focal point, balance, proportion, emphasis and contrast. The focal point I found is their hands held by each other symbolizing union. I say this is the focal point because it's the first thing you see when you look at the photo besides the hearts and it's like a bond that they both have. This painting has a type of balance called symmetrical balance due to the fact that if you divide it in half, the left and right look almost identical except for the hearts and what is in their hands. The emphasis that Frida made in this painting is the hearts connected to each other by a vein. The scale and proportions that Frida made in this painting are standard human proportions, the hearts are human size.