Compare and contrast the use of social realism in Vera Mukhina’s Monument to the Proletariat and Agriculture and Diego Rivera’s The Liberation of the Peon.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Vera Mukhina’s Monument to the Proletariat and Agriculture depicts a male factory and a female farm worker.
2. The stainless steel sculpture, which was first displayed at the Paris International Exposition of 1937, uses the depiction of united rural and urban workers who praise the Communist regime to communicate the Communist vision of the Soviet State to the public.
3. Diego Rivera’s fresco The Liberation of the Peon was designed as a public mural, but it promoted the post-revolutionary government of Mexico.
4. The mural evokes the theme of revolution by depicting revolutionary soldier who unties an abused worker from a stake while the house of the landlord burns in the background.
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