Comparative Study Almost three decades prior to the feminist movement, Amrita Sher-Gil Comparative Study emerged as an artist who emancipated herself from the established norms of representation. "Two Girls" one of her largest works (129 x 89 cm), it is arguably one of her most enigmatic. Painted in oils, the figures are still, Title : Two Girls frozen in the moment, their eyes unfocused - neither meeting nor shying Date: 1939 away from the gaze of the viewer. Artist: Amrita Sher-Gil, Sher-Gil accepted the subjective nature of gender identity, disavowing the Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas idea of socially constructed sexual desire as exclusively masculine or Dimensions: 173.5 x 173 cm feminine which is clearly depicted in this painting. Gallery: Museum of Modern Art Mexico City, Mexico Frida Kahlo experimented with different styles and motifs and shocked the art world with her "surrealist" style works and paintings with sexual references. "The Two Fridas". This painting is a classic example of how she expressed her emotions towards Diego on canvas. This double self- portrait of two different Fridas was painted just after Diego and Frida divorced. The Frida on the right is the Frida that Diego once loved while the other Frida is the Frida that Diego betrayed and rejected. It is impossible to ignore the conceptual similarities between "Two Girls" and Frida Kahlo's magnum opus "Two Fridas" that was painted in the same year. It is almost certain that neither artist was aware of the other; however their concerns and the issues that have become the subject of posthumous discussion in both cases are strikingly similar. In both, personal biographies are inseparable from the images themselves. In "Two Fridas", Kahlo splits her own identity into two representations of Title : Two Fridas herself - one garbed in the indigenous Mexican dress, the other in a Date: 1939 colonial-style white dress. (8) The hearts of the two women are connected Artist: Frida Kahlo through a vital artery that is severed by the "European" Frida. Materials and Techniques: oil on The intimacy of the interlocked hands is reminiscent of Sher-Gil's "Two canvas Girls". Unlike the latter, this is a literal self-portrait; there can be no Dimensions: 129 x 89 cm ambiguity about the bodies. The image is a biography. While the two girls are not self-portraits, they are alter egos representing Sher-Gil's negotiation with a problematic identity. Credits: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Amrita+Sher- Gil%3A+%22Two+Girls%22,+1939.-a0261871980 .