From 1910 to 1920 the Mexican revolution was a response created …show more content…
This was done deliberately, as a self-conscious political commitment. 1 Rivera was born to a middle-class family in Guanajuato in 1886. He was said to have drawn obsessively from the age of three. When he was ten he entered art school, in Mexico City. In 1907, a scholarship took him to Paris, where he stayed for fourteen years. While there he became a credible Cubist and a friend of bohemian luminaries, including Modigliani and Soutine. After the triumph of the Mexican revolution, Rivera returned to Mexico, where the brilliant minister of education, Jose Vasconcelos, envisioned a program for public arts. In the year 1922 Rivera joined the Mexican Communist Party where he was later expelled from. In august of that year, Rivera later married fellow artist Frida Kahlo.
One of Rivera’s most famous paintings “The Flower Carrier” represented the struggles of a working men living in a capitalist society. 5 Rivera was concerned about the struggles of the peasants in Mexico. Because of this, he intended this piece to move the audience to question the social effects that capitalism has on the working class. In the picture, we see an exhausted peasant on the ground because of the large weight of the flowers. Rivera illustrates the farmer as small and frail. In the photo, we also see the women helping the overburdened worker with the