1. Some of the major contributing factors to poverty are lack of food, education, and oppurtunity, size of family, natural disasters, substance abuse, work ethic, and laziness.
2. I believe that the artist portrays poverty in a negative light, because the children look somewhat sad and the mother looks disaoppointed, like she is about to give up on trying to get out of poverty.
3. The message is that poverty can affect anyone, and is a sad and horrible thing.
4. Two elements of art that enhance the message are color and perspective.
Most of the colors used in the painting are dreary neutrals, as the family's clothes and background are a gloomy color. The only brght colors are the yellow of the flowers the girl is holdng and the red head shawl on the baby. This shows the sad life they have to endure.
Those two brght color spots also most likely make up the focal point of the painting. Eyes are drawn to the middle focal pont, and one can see all that is surrounding that point. Ths brightness shows some hope in the family coming out of poverty, but it has still affected the family in a horrible way, shown in the mother's, son's, and baby's faces.
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