Liberation Of The Peon Analysis

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The piece of artwork I chose for my Midterm Paper is The Liberation of the Peon by Diego Rivera. This work was published in 1931 and the medium used for this painting is Fresco. The reason I chose this particular piece of art for my assignment was because it spoke to me in a far bigger way than any of the other pieces we had to choose from, not only is The Liberation of the Peon by Diego Rivera a big painting in size (6 feet 1 inches × 7 feet 10 1/4 inches) but it is even bigger in the way it will speak straight to the heart of any human being that can truly see the content that is being portrayed by Diego Rivera, and that is that all men are created equally, and should be treated as such.
When I first looked at The Liberation of the Peon there were a few things that caught my eye …show more content…

The person who is tied up by the hands and being drug around is the focal point of this piece of art, the content is all drawn to him and is trying to make the viewer see the true pain and suffering that he or she is going through, this you can tell by the slash marks to the body and the agonizing angles the body is being twist to. Another small form of content that I noticed in this piece is the facial expression of the older man holding the horses. His face shows pain and suffering, but you can also see that it is a somewhat normal occurrence because he does not seem to be in an agonizing pain, but rather just a dull sadness, overall the content of this artwork is remarkable and is why this painting is still relevant so many years

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