The Pinch of Poverty

Some major contributing factors to poverty are the environment that surrounds the society, affecting the supply and demand, the source of food, etc., the available amount of education, addiction, as well as several other factors.

In this piece, you see everything BUT the flowers in a dark light, making you feel a darkness toward poverty, and feeling sad and gloomy.

I felt like in the piece, the artist is saying that poverty is dark and gloomy (in reference to the dark colors used in the painting) and because the flowers are the only things bright, and they are sort of being pushed towards you by the flower girl, you are seeing this as the girl pushing herself out of poverty, pushing her hope and faith so maybe she can escape her destiny as of right now. The realism of the picture also helps to give you a better, clearer, more realistic idea of what poverty is like, and the detail in the facial expressions elaborates on this even further.