In Diego Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural, he is showing all of the big corporations/ banks, which hold all the power over the un-wealthy. He is clearly showing the truth behind the industry. A lot of people would oversee what the industry really does to our working communities, or people who do not have the resources needed to survive. His mural speaks what’s behind our economy, and how it ties in closely to the Great Depression in the 1930s.
With the Occupy Movement today, people are just trying to stress the fact that all citizens should have equal rights. It isn’t right that the government and the wealthy live off of the working people, or people who are struggling to make a living. With the way that this is going, the US could go into another Great Depression again just on how the government treats its citizens. Money is being misused and taken away from the middle and lower class. This is how it connects so in depth with Diego Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural. During the Great Depression, people couldn’t get their money from banks. The main reason for Occupy Movement is their money is being taken from the banks.
The BIG connection with Diego Rivera’s mural and the Occupy Movement is that in the mural, there is a gate that separates the money and the people from getting their money. Today there is block from people getting their full money from the bank. The mural then shows in an image above that there are bodies lying on the ground, not dead, as a result of not getting their money. They decide to camp out and the police are standing around. This is what is happing with the Occupy Movement now. Lastly in the image above the last, Diego Rivera shows all the banks and corporation where many people are standing in a line. During this Occupy Movement, hundreds and thousands of people are lined up. Even from state to state.
