Marathon Runner Art

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The work of art appears to take the shape of an elongated rectangle. The picture shows thirteen marathon racers running in unison. Starting from the left side, the first marathon runner has a bright white skin color with a dark color attire. But as you go further to the right of the piece the skin color of the runner becomes darker while the attire becomes lighter. Eventually at the far right the runner has very dark skin color and bright white attire. I believe this artist was trying to reveal his feeling in a tangible way we all can see. I also believe he trying to reveal a hidden truth of terms of America’s stagnation with race and class progression even as after the successful movements of the Civil Rights. Nikolai also wanted to have us look at blue collar workers and white collar workers not as lower class and upper class careers but as a type of Yin-Yang because both types of workers depends on one another and one cannot exist without the other.
This correlates with the artisitic term value because the relationship between lightness and darkness changes when you go left to right or vice versa. The person becomes darker the more you go to the right but the attire becomes lighter. The …show more content…
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