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The Blood Of The Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing The Earth By Diego Rivera

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Mexican Muralist Project I have selected Lázaro Cárdenas a mural painted by an unknown artist, Partition of Land by Diego Rivera and The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth by Diego Rivera These all show the changes that the Mexican Revolution brought to Mexico. The Lázaro Cárdenas painting represents Mexico reclaiming their oil. The painting by Diego Rivera was created in 1924 in Mexico. It represents how the land was redistributed back to the poor people of Mexico. The other mural by Diego shows that the revolution made it possible for Mexico to grow and prosper. The murals show that the Mexican Revolution was a true Revolution that brought social and economic change to Mexico. One of the greatest accomplishments of …show more content…

The Lázaro Cárdenas mural shows the process of land being redistributed. In the direct middle of the page there are men in suits that are frowning. Assumed to be the owners of the land that are not happy that it’s being taken away from them. In the middle right of the page a darker man in a suit is holding a big blue piece of paper. It seems to be a map of the land, the land that they’re splitting up. Around the man many people in white clothing are surrounding him. They appear to be the poor civilians that are there to receive land. This mural shows that the land was in the process of being redistributed. The amount of people that showed up seems to show that many people needed or wanted land. Before and during the Mexican revolution, Mexico had a huge problem with social inequality. Giving land to or back to the people helped close the gaps of social classes. The Blood of the Revolutionary Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth by Diego Rivera is a mural that shows that the revolution made it possible for Mexico to grow in all sorts of ways. At the bottom of the page there are two dead bodies wrapped in red cloth under the earth surface. They seem to represent those who died in the Mexican revolution and the revolution itself. At the the top half of the mural there is a field of corn crops. They seem to represent Mexico itself. The death of these people “fertilized” the land and allowed

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