How do artists show relationships?

Fourth grade students looked at and discussed artwork by Diego Rivera and Carmen Lomas Garza. They found that these artists showed relationships between people. Rivera sometimes showed relationships between family members, but many times he showed the relationship the people of Mexico had with the government. Similarly, Lomas Garza showed relationships in her extended family, especially from personal memories. Students drew relationships, either from memories they had, or from their imagination, and chose the medium with which to color them. Finally, they wrote about the relationship portrayed in their artwork.