Art Analysis - The Grinder

The Grinder - Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was one of Mexico's most important painters and a big artist of the twentieth century. He was born in 1886 in Guanajuato.  This painting is  called The Grinder is now in El Museo De Arte Moderno, INBA, in Mexico City. She is working hard and shows how now a days women aren't as hardworking as before. In this decade woman are used to being more lazy and having what they want at hand. Before this century happened women would be as hardworking as men and make food from scratch like tortillas and bread daily. The women in the picture looks tired and as if she could use a break but she had to do this in order to fulfill her obligations as a women feeding her family.