Diego Rivera Creation

Works of art that relate to what is happening at the time is a way for historical studies to shape the way people studying the time or events taken place. The Creation, by Diego Rivera painted over the span of a year. During which he was representing the religious and political views and outreach in the community. Another work by Rivera, Los Explotadores show the exploitations of government officials, the wealthy, and landowners and how they treat the poor and the indigenous people.

Rivera’s, Creation is the first of Rivera 's many murals and a touchstone for Mexican Muralism. In the artist 's words, "The origins of the sciences and the arts, a kind of condensed version of human history" (Vasconcelos). It depicts a number of allegorical figures, all seemingly represented with unmistakably Mexican features. Through features of the work as the

Los Explotadores, painted by Rivera in 1926, depicts different types of groups during the Mexican revolution. The mural shows a few peasant women who seem hard at work. In the time the huge representation of the women who seemed to work and give just as much as the men. The next person seems to almost be crucified by the looks of the situation and orientation of the body. One can conclude that this person represents the indigenous people of Mexico who at the time were the most stripped of their rights and land. The men exploiting the indigenous man, are seen as government officials. The next area to catch eye’s was the horse, where we have two very different represented groups riding. The first is a rich landowner, a group that reaped the benefits of the distribution of land and exploitation of the poor. Behind the landowner, we have the very opposite of the landowning society. The man behind him seems to be an activist fighting against the distribution that makes the man in front of him able to exploit the financial benefits. The other men seem to be the poor, hard workers who see little wealth regardless of the intense