The artwork I chose was 4.9.18b Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas. This artwork was made by Frida Kahlo herself in 1939. The dimensions are 5'8" X 5'8", the medium is oil on canvas. You can find this beautiful piece at the Museo de Arte Moderno, in Mexico City, Mexico. All of this was found in my class book “Bridges to Art Understanding the Visual Arts” page 676. Formal Analysis: When you first look at this painting, your eyes go directly to the hands that are intertwined. This shows that the two Fridas are connected to each other. Both hearts are shown but one heart is open while the other is closed. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get the original essay Surgical scissors attempt to stop bleeding from the vein that comes from the heart. As Frida holds the scissors, she bleeds all over her European dress, showing that she was empty and drained. The sky behind the two Fridas is dark and stormy, which is due to the color element. Frida is seen on the left holding a small portrait of her ex-husband Diego Rivera. Frida includes her family's background, her ex-husband, and her physical pain in this one painting. Psychological Analysis: The Two Fridas was made after her divorce from her ex-husband Diego Rivera and at a difficult time in her life when she had a collision during a bus ride. Before being married and divorced by Diego Rivera, Frida learned the hard way what pain was and not just mental pain. Before her bus accident which left her with a disabling injury, she suffered from polio and had to injure her right foot. During his recovery, it was his father who brought him art supplies and that's where it all began. You can see the pain it brought her, splitting her between her two horizons, making her torn and bleeding. In all of Frida's works, you can see the truthfulness and pain of 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 bulk. I say this because the colors Frida used to differentiate Frida from left to right shows how one part feels closer to her European side while the other feels closer to her Mexican side, so it's like if she feels divided by both. She also used a darker color tone for the background of her painting showing us an apocalyptic landscape. The value of this painting is that it is a two dimensional painting, but when you look at it it has depth like on the skirts and tops that the Fridas are wearing, the lightness and darkness make it look three dimensional . The line depicted is the connection of hearts from his European side to his Mexican side and how they entangle with his left arm. The texture you can see is on the white top of her European outfit. The principles I found while watching The Two Fridas were focal point, balance, proportion, emphasis, and contrast. The central point I found is that their hands held by each other symbolizes unity. I say it's the focal point because it's the first thing you see when you look at the picture other than the hearts and it's like a connection 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 both look almost identical, except for the hearts and what is in their hands. Keep in mind: this is not.