Maribel Peralta
ENG 2850-KTA
10/23/2015
The picture that I choose for this assignment was a picture illustrated by Diego Rivera in 1914 it is called Young Man in a Gray Sweater (Jacques Lipchitsz). To begin talking about this picture I would like to mention the reason why it stood out to me. The person who made the picture actually has my soon to be marriage name Rivera, seeing that in black on the bottom right hand corner automatically sparked my interest. Naturally I wanted to know more about the artist himself so that it can help me understand the picture and its meaning. Successfully I did, I learned that this type of picture is a form of cubism which is a style of abstract art. This type of art uses shapes, colors and different formats to create an illusion of an image. In this picture it happened to be a young man in a gray sweater. From the point of view where I was standing I felt like I could see a blurred image of this character from multiple angles. The black and gray colors are spread throughout the image to make it feel more dimensional than it actually is. The colored stripes on the sides help me create a point to stop trying to piece together the shapes that construct the image of his face. The multiple dimensions also give the image a dark tone and feel. The gray crackled rectangle in the middle of the image helps me center the opposing faces. On the left side of the image it looks like the young man is making a serious and stern face with the eyebrow shadow being shown in a high arch. It also seems as if the hands fingers might have been entangled together. On the right side the face looks more relaxed. The eyebrow as well as the eye look more opened and not as tense. He also makes the right side brighter adding more shades of white to the gray colored shape in its bottom right corner. This made me feel as if the Young man in the Gray sweater may have had a good and a bad side as many individuals do in this world that we live in. To me Diego Rivera captured that beautifully in this image, I really enjoyed looking at it.