1.) SOAPSTone the painting.
Subject: workers in a field
Occasion: early 20th century
Audience: Mexican laborers/rich white people
Purpose: to show the toil planters go through
Speaker: hard labor should be distributed fairly among many people
Tone: rather grim, almost encouraging
2.) What is the meaning/theme/big idea the artist wanted you to think about? Support your answer with artistic choices he made (i.e. color, style, subject, position, etc.)
Rivera wanted the viewer to acknowledge that the hard work performed by these two planters is unpleasant and should involve more people working together to get the job done. This is shown through the use of putting dark shadows on the man working, with the stark contrast to the bright yellow ground representing that working in the fields is arduous. The subject, two planters, shows that not much work is getting done with just two people working in the fields, emphasizing the fact that more people should work together.
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