Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera created a chaotic relationship that began when Frida was just 18, and Diego was twice her age. They later got married when Frida turned 22, and Diego was 42. Because of an affair Diego had with Cristina, Frida’s younger sister; it began to make Frida question who she was. After a divorce filled with heartaches, Frida Kahlo began to paint more; leading to the creation of “Las Dos Fridas” in 1939, the same year the divorce was taking place. The double self-portrait shows two Frida’s; one dressed in a Victorian white lace dress (dresses she used to wear before she married Diego Rivera), and one dressed in a traditional Mexican dress (attire she began to wear because of her husband’s encouragement). Frida Kahlo was from both German and Mexican descent, so the different dresses represent her question of “who am I?”; confused between who she was, she remains connected (as shown by the intertwined vein.) The use of the connecting blood vessel depicts that no matter whom she picks to be; they will always have each other. You can see that both Frida’s expose their hearts, the one on the left has her heart damaged, while the other has her heart as healthy as it can be. Though one is struggling and bleeding from a cut vein that fed a small portrait of her lost love, she is left in despair and stained by her blood; blood that can easily get confused with the flowers that decorate her white dress. The two Frida’s hold hands tightly, this bond is strengthened even more by the vein that unites them, since fundamentally, they are the same person no matter what. An exposed heart, lost love and cut vein weaken part of her, but her strong side passes strength and support to the broken portion of herself. The background shows the storm she is going through, her division rather than integration. This self-portrait was meant to be more than just a portrait, but it instead shows more than meets the eye; her way of translating her pain into art. The painting shows deep, painful emotions, but in an aspect, it manages to show strength from a woman broken physically and emotionally, which depicts who Frida Kahlo indeed was.