La Pinata by Diego Rivera

One amazing aspect of good paintings is that, like with good music, experiencing them can affect your mood. Just like when you hear a specific song and feel happy because it reminds you of good things in your life, a painting can also convey emotions very clearly.

One example of this is the painting La Piñata by Diego Rivera. In the painting, we follow the classic Mexican piñata ceremony, where one person is blind folded and trying to hit the piñata. The game is played by as number of kids, and the one swinging for the piñata has just managed to hit it. The remaining kids are scrambling to get their hands on the candies that are falling from the wounded piñata.

Diego Rivera uses several effects in this painting in order to make the viewer feel warmer and confortable. First, of cours,e the motive is of happy playing children, which automatically brings a sense of happiness. There are no sense of danger in the painting, no threatening colors or signs. Rather, the colors are more mural like in their sun bleached quality, but they are warm earthy tones. The background is similarly not clear, but it is not dark or threatening either. Instead, we have children playing among warm earthen colors. This in turn brings us as the viewer a warmth, a happiness and a sense of piece, all conveyed by this wonderful painting. La Pinata is a great choice of art reproductions to make your walls look beautiful.