Subject- Planters on a farm
Occasion- 1910's-1920's during communist movements in Latin America.
Audience- Citizens of a Latin American nation.
Purpose- To educate citizens about the downsides of capitalism and to portray communism as the savior of the worker.
Speaker- Diego Rivera was an artist during this tumultuous time in Latin America who strongly endorsed communism.
Tone- Rivera is sympathetic towards the planters because he is trying to show their pain.
Diego Rivera portrays these planters as oppressed victims of capitalism amd wants his audience to believe that the planters are undervalued and work hard. He supports this idea by the color scheme and postition of the planters in the painting. The colors in the painting are bland showing the dullness of the planter's life, but specifically the lack of facial features shows the planters as workers, not people in the eyes of the capitalist government. The postition of the planter to the right shows how hard the man is working for such little pay.
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