"Semeadores" -Diego Rivera

Subject: In Spanish, Semeadores means Sowers. These sowers are sowing an apparently barren field.
Occasion: These people seem to be South American Immigrants, working to sustain themselves in America. This probably was a scene from the beginning of the heavy inflow of South Americans to North America, when cheap farmwork was a common job for immigrants.
Audience: People that he can influence to see the wrong in capitalism, and the hardships faced everyday because of it.
Purpose: To convince people that communism is a better alternative to capitalism (Rivera was a big advocate of communism) and to show the oppression of immigrants.
Artist: Diego Rivera was known for painting influential historical South American murals.
Tone: There is an oppresive, somber tone expressed in the colors and the way the organic lines are used to "bind" the workers to the ground.
-Oppression is shown in the dark sky and the way the man's body is made with organic lines that match the curves of the field and hills, and the fact that he looks like he is clinging to the shovel. The fact that his body's curves blend in with the contours of the land shows that he is bound to working there, and the way he appears to be clinging onto the shovel simulates how his exhausted body ishas to cling onto hope to keep moving through the hardships he is undergoing. He respresents every man in his situation, and that is why he is faceless.