Man_and_Machine

Man and Machine Visual Analysis Paper For this assignment I chose to do the paper on Man and Machine. This is a painting that was a huge mural that was located in the Detroit Institute of Art. In the early 1930’s, Edsel Ford hired Diego Rivera to paint tis massive mural on the marble walls. Man and Machine shows a factory and the hard-working men that work in it everyday. In the front of the mural are a diverse group of men on a line. They strain and their arms are flexed as they are hard at work trying to get their job done. Behind them it extends into the rest of the factory. Thelarge machines, compared to the size men that run them. On the level above are a couple more men and the fire burning energy source for the factory. This is one of Rivera’s most popular works of art that is presented in a public place. This way it has a huge impact on everyone, even ordinary people. The large-scale piece of work uses color, linear perspective, and implied motion to get an idea across. Rivera wanted to emphasize men, work, factory, machines, hard, man, machine, way, shows, piece, one, front, color, back, art, working, rivera, really, perspective, mural, motion, linear, line, everyday, being, around, 1930’s, very, things, technology, size, show, run, people, paper