The Flower Carrier
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The Flower Carrier is a famous 1935 painting by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera that depicts a laborer struggling under an enormous basket of flowers, symbolizing the burdens of the working class.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Flower Carrier canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
contrasting tones
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vivid colors ⓘ |
| composition | centralized figure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Mexico ⓘ |
| creator | Diego Rivera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | post-revolutionary Mexico ⓘ |
| depicts |
indigenous Mexican worker
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laborer ⓘ large basket of flowers ⓘ manual labor ⓘ physical strain ⓘ woman assisting the worker ⓘ worker carrying flowers ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
art history texts
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museum catalogues ⓘ |
| genre | social realism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
enormous flower basket
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kneeling figure ⓘ standing helper figure ⓘ straps across worker’s shoulders ⓘ |
| inception | 1935 ⓘ |
| intendedMeaning |
critique of social injustice
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empathy for the poor ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| mainSubject | working class ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
masonite panel
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oil paint ⓘ |
| medium | oil on masonite ⓘ |
| movement | Mexican muralism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
iconic image of Mexican laborers
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powerful social commentary ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Diego Rivera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Diego Rivera’s socially conscious works ⓘ |
| style |
figurative
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simplified forms ⓘ |
| symbolism |
assisting woman representing solidarity
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basket representing weight of poverty ⓘ flowers as burden ⓘ kneeling worker representing exploitation ⓘ |
| theme |
burden of labor
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class struggle ⓘ dignity of labor ⓘ oppression of the working class ⓘ social inequality ⓘ |
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