Principles of Design Research

 The work of art that I looked at was Self-Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the Untied States by Frida Kahlo. The art piece was created in 1932. Frida Kahlo used the principles of design because she made sure that she used things like lights and dark to have her audience look at the most  important parts of the work. On the boarder line, between Mexico and the US, Kahlo created a self-portrait of herself. In this part of the work Kahlo had good use of proportion in her painting, by making sure the people looking at her piece first looked at the self-portrait of her, which was larger then the rest of the work. Frida Kahlo used contrasting things, like factories in the United States vs. old places that the Mesoamericans had in Mexico. The art work had good approximate symmetry with her in the middle of the picture and other aspects around her.  I enjoyed the work because she made sure it was from her view point of the two different places. She also used depth of field because she had a few things which were keys to the painting, like the factory building, which used leading lines along the page. She used a little bit of grouping when she had things that she put in clusters or drew them more then once. Overall the art piece was extremely good and she did a great job on getting a point her point about how Mexico and the United States are two different places, as well as her uses of the principles of design in many important parts throughout her work.