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Summary: The Wall Street Banquet And Our Bread By Diego Rivera

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Art has often been employed as a tool to evoke emotions, inspire ideologies, and spread messages. Murals are one such form, possessing the propaganda-like ability of massive size and public placement to reach a wider audience with a more emphatic theme than other art mediums. In the early twentieth century, a muralism movement led by famous artists swept Mexico, acting as a window into revolutionary life and an instrument for social change. Through the juxtaposition of parallel murals, Diego Rivera highlights the stark lifestyle inequality gap between the capitalists and the campesinos still present during the era of Mexican Revolution in his 1928 pieces, “The Wall Street Banquet” and “Our Bread”. Prior to the Mexican Revolution, sweeping

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