Milkmaid's Family Visual Analysis

Throughout history transportation has constantly changed overtime due to trade, migration and growth of cities. Transportation innovated from trade due to the fact that they needed a faster way to sell and buy goods. Also when people migrated, they needed a faster way to get to their destination. To add on to that, when groups of peoples settle around the same areas, they start to form a community, build cities etc. As cities are form so are job opportunity, and with these jobs, people need a new way of getting to their jobs. Therefore the innovation of transportation plays a big role in the progression of society, which is shown through visual and advertisements throughout history. In the 1640 Milkmaid’s Family visual, you can see a hard working family with a mule. The mule is old and looks tired and beat up. It looks like the family is migrated, and probably looking for somewhere to stay, but that is very difficult in 1640 with very few modes of transportation. You also see a mom and a dad with two kids. It looks like they are just looking for a place to stay, a place to call home. I think this painting was intended for middle …show more content…
In the painting of the Milkmaid’s family, they were using horses as a source of transportation, but now in 1940’s there is multiple source of transportation. In the ad, you notice the happy family driving their brand new Oldsmobile. This car is different from any other cars. This car has automatic drives, you don’t need a clutch to press the gas anymore, and lastly you save ten to fifth teen percent on gas. This advertisement does a really good job appealing to a viewer sense of logos because the viewer begins to think about all of the benefits of having this car, and how it could make their life more convenient. This advertisement is intended for the wealthy, and middle class citizen because this car is brand new, and most likely there are not too many cars like