The Street Pavers Painting

The painting that spoke to me was The Street Pacers which was painted by Umberto Boccioni. When I first saw this painting I thought about my grandmother and my mom. When my mother was growing up, she and her family didn’t have much. My grandmother would plant fresh fruits and vegetables to feed her kids, because it cost a lot to buy groceries. My mom would always share this story with my siblings and I. She would remind us how grateful and blessed we are because we can get up and go to the grocery store. I felt like this painting was powerful to me. Because this painting shows a powerful form of modern labor, if you look closely you’ll see people in the garden picking out food. Which is what my mom and her family went through.

This painting defines the back break work of modern laborers. I found out that the painting represents the “metropolis in multicolored and polyphonic tidal waves of revolution” What drew me into this painting was the multi color and lines. I like how you can’t really see what’s going on but have a vision in mind of all the colors and details. The painting shows some primary colors with a mixture of secondary colors. In the. painting you see colors like yellow, blue, red, and white.I believe that the color yellow means happiness and light, the color blue represents wisdom, the color red is showing a very powerful energy, also the color white is showing clearness and brightness that brings the painting alive. The lines in the painting look thin and jagged because you can actually see somes hand and head structure. The value of the painting is not too dark or too light; it’s more of a warm lighting. I feel like the texture of the painting is smooth because the level of the painting is even there’s no lumps and it’s also free from perceptible projections.