Friday, November 25, 2011

Public Art as Social Protest

 "Until Lions write their own history, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter'' by Ourstorian
Diego Rivera an artist who was a force of nature painted a mural called "frozen Assets" represented the patron’s power over the non-wealthy and the direct contradictions the government sets for its self. Rivera's mural allocated facts about how divided the system was with his painting specifying towards the era of, John D. Rockefeller Jr. His picture gave an example of injustice, depression, secrecy, betrayal done by the government. The occupy movement today shows the force of the nation’s retaliation. The unity of people felt that their voice, were not being considered, because of the injustice laws of the government. It is sad to see that the people have to block freeways, walk miles to different states, and protest within the cities to indicate that what they have to say should be an obligation by the government. The people’s right for freedom of speech is being over ruled by the government, which can lead to proving how the government sets its self-up for direct contradictions. In result is the occupy movement, the police is enforced, and is beating the people with patrons, spraying them down with gas and incarcerating them. It has come down too these types of riots happening on college campus. There is a saying that we are the 99% that is being controlled by the 1%. We,  being under government laws paying taxes, the money that we work hard making, the government ends up taking it away from our paychecks.



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