The bright colors caught my eye and the image reminded me a little of my hometown. Where I come from there's a large range of ethnicity and when I saw this lithograph it brought back old memories. Of when, I guess you can call them thugs, would drive up and down the streets of Dumas in there decked out lowriders thinking they were the coolest thing since sliced bread. In my opinion I always thought low riders were absurd and that they were a mark down to the cars real stature. Luis Jimenez's lithographs show a true style in which some people portray beauty with there cars.
The title El Corazon lowrider describes the image very well in a Spanish and English translation. Luis Jimenez was born in the United States in 1940 and both
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The lithograph that is being talked about is of a lowrider that has two passengers' one female and one male. The car is the center of attention in the painting, and there are also things' surrounding the car on the bottom left starts the emission of smoke that then wraps around behind the car and then trails down the bake side of it in a combination of colors.
The painting has certain elements that make it unique; the colors of the painting are derived from five main colors that are displayed throughout the painting, red, white, green, yellow and gray. The colors used in this painting are both realistic and symbolic. Luis Jimenez shows a lot of pride in his works that depict his Mexican culture. These colors come together to make a cartoon like image where the characters and features of the painting look as though they are nonrealistic. The car is somewhat distorted into a rounded moving shape and the characters have real accented features. The car seems to be the center of attention and the man inside the car who is driving stands out the most with his bright yellow shirt and his heart tattooed on his forearm the girl is then leaning on him as though it looks as they are driving through some kind of dream. Where the exhaust that comes from the car being red,
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