The Bus

The Bus.

In this painting there are six people sitting on a bus. The first one is of a woman who is wearing a white dress.  She is wearing black shoes and has a woven basket. The next person is a man, he wearing blue overalls over his white shirt and orange tie. He is holding a wrench in his right hand. The next person is a women. She has something under her clothes.  She is wearing an orange top and a yellow skirt. She has a bag by her feet. Next her is little boy who is knelling on the bench. He is wearing is a white and orange hat, a blue shirt and white pants. He is looking out the window. Next to the boy is a man. He is wearing a black suit with a gray and black hat. In the man’s right is a bag. Next to the man is a woman. She is wearing a purple dress with pantyhose. She is wearing an orange scarf. All six people are sitting on a bench in wooden bus. Behind the passengers is green field with a few trees and a walking path. Right next to the walking path is two buildings one red, the other tan. The tan building has smoke towers, with smoke coming out of them.

I found this painting to be rather disappointing as this painting seemed to be displaying stereotypes of several different ethnicity's. The first women who appears to be of Asian descent, is dressed nicely, with her hands in her lap. The next person is man of African descent.  He is stereotyped by the way he is dressed and what is hinted as his occupation. The man while having what appears to be a button down shirt and a tie, is also wearing overalls. He is also carrying a wrench. He is a stereotyping people of African descent, as those with more blue collars jobs and those who are not as nicely dressed. The third person seems to be a Hispanic woman. The woman is dressed in what appears to be a Latin influenced dress. The kid next to her appears to be hers. She also appears to have a kid under clothes, possibly breast feeding. The bag she has appears to be pretty ratty, a sign of not much money.  The boy is looking out the window and kneeling on the bench. I think this is showing kids to have a little less patience and being curious. The next person is a Caucasian man. This man is well dressed. He is wearing a suit and a hat. He has a bag in his right hand, it can be assumed that this bag has money in it. This man is portraying Caucasians as people with a little bit more money and can afford to dress nicely.. The last person is another lady who appears to be Asian. She like the first is well kept along with being well mannered as she has her hands in her lap.

Works Citied

Kahlo, Frida. The Bus. 1929. Dalores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico, Taos School of Art. Web. 9 September 2010