Las Dos Fridas by Frida Kahlo do0es an excellent job at symmetry. When looking at this picture if one was to divide it straight down the center, each side would jest be a mirror image of each other. Their hands coming together signifies the center of the piece. The background story behind this piece is really an interesting one. The piece pertains to Frida’s divorce to her husband and on the left portrays the divorced Frida in her modern dress and on the right is Frida in her native garments. The only thing that connects the two is the heart and in one woman it is empty and broken and the other if full and colorful just like the dress. It can almost be interpreted that her modern life style sucked the color and life out of her and her clothes. But also in neither woman’s face does either look happy, not even the one on the right, which is Frida in her native garments. Both faces look calm or even shocked at what has happened. Also with the woman on the left she cut the vein so it almost seems as if she wants to cut off all ties to her modern life and go back to the life she always knew.
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