Sunday, November 27, 2011

The events in the past relate to the future in many ways. Specifically I want to focus on the commonality between the occupy movement and the great depression interpenetrated art piece created by Diego Rivera. Both events involves wealth and the improper use and destruction of it. Even though Diego's piece doesn't depict  a group protesting, the need for it is clearly evident. The government needs to focus on its past in order to be successful in the future. Our involvement in war over the past years has severely hurt our economy as it did in the past.The middle portion of this mural in my own interpretation depicts people who are dead and starving and dying due to starvation. The picture also displays heartfelt sorrow because of the lost of ones possessions. These emotions are for sure simular to todays occupy movement. I thimk the occupy movement is trying to eduacate and make people aware of who holds the power in America. The occupy movement wants us to know that the rich keeps getting richer and aquire more things amongst more privileges. All the while the middle class sinks into the lower middle class and the lower middle class sinks into the poor. The bottom of the mural seem as if it were the begging of the market crash and when everyone started to lose there assets. I infered this from the people being in the bank and having gloomy appearances. Then the middle of the mural shows a security guard watching over the seemingly sick or dead ones. This probably occured after ones who were low class werent able to dish out money for the necessities of life like food shelter and the rest. Finally the top picture suggestes that the buildings are old and not maintained very well. In all the whole mural told a story of the gloomy past that we dont want to transform into a deadly future.

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