The Flower Carrier By Diego Rivera Analysis

In history during the time period of the 1930s several movements and new ideas were coming into play such as the expansion of capitalism, industrialism and Latin American culture in the United States. Gaps between the social classes began to arise quickly and the lower classes were affected greatly with poverty and strains to their labor work. Diego Rivera a Mexican painter created “the Flower Carrier” an oil based Masonite in 1935 as a method with the painting of bright colors, geometric shapes, bold style and a simple yet complex underlying message of the everyday unskilled worker and their burden under modern capitalism with the purpose of catching multitudes attention, something the painting does effectively in order to arise and ask for …show more content…
Whether they were trying to support a family in the US or working to help out family in their home countries many of their new lifestyle included working a large amount of hours either doing labor or simply keeping less than minimum wage jobs. Meanwhile, Diego Rivera began to rise as a prominent painter and having faced similar circumstances, he began to create his work based of social issues and the many struggles that individuals faced having to become accustomed to the growth of factories and the growing economic system of trade and industry and how such noticeable changes began to cause a very visible division between social classes of wealthy citizens and poor people. Upon completing this painting he began to capture the attention of not only the people who were affected by these circumstances making them feel like they not only related to his artwork but to the painter too but, by people who began to already partake in a much faster industrialized lifestyle.
The clay like style was a very common method used not only by Rivera but by many Latin American artists to create much detail to what they wanted to represent. The boldness of the painting could be used to attract the viewer’s attention to certain objects in the painting for example in this painting only certain objects stood out like the basket of …show more content…
The flowers representing the luxury that is enjoyed by the wealthy, which is not common since flowers are to be considered natures organic beauty are contradicted by Rivera who uses them to represent something materialistic and appeal to his audience to compare them both and understand that the common worker receives this pressure and need to carry and do his job as capitalism expands and labor requires becoming harder and much faster to comply with the needs of society. This symbol of the flowers is something that the worker cannot see or “obtain” since it is only his job to sale them or the luxury that he can’t have. The colors all representing the mood of the objects in this painting also signify the meaning of the workers dullness compared to the flowers beauty and the struggle the working man has to labor hard for the wealthy luxury. Later earning recognition it inspired many lower class people other than Latin Americans to take a stance together and fight for worker equality something that with time turned into laws, regulations and the constant change for better equality and change in