"Semeadores" Diego Rivera

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Subject: the workers
Occasion: Mexican Revolution
Audience: working class
Purpose: to show the hardships of the working class
Speaker: artist
Tone: dreary, artist shows that the lives of workers are hard and not pleasant

- In the painting "Semeadores", Diego Rivera wanted to show the stress of the workers. He expresses this through many ways. Firstly, he shows the difficulty of the guy on the right's work. He shows this through the arch in his back. It looks almost as if he's pushing with all his body's weight on the shovel. Also, the colors in the painting are very neutral and muddy looking. This expresses that the workers aren't very high-spirited, they don't have much brightness in their lives, and that their work causes their lives to be difficult and a bit depressing. Lastly, the way that the two figures' bodies seem to flow into the field could emphasize the fact that this is where they belong and they can't leave their work.