The Frozen Assets

Looking at the Frozen Assets mural by Diego Rivera and the Occupy Movement, I definitely see a connection of separation. I see this in both ideas because both are stating there is America literally on top the actual America. The specific example of this would be the Occupy Movement’s slogan, “We are the 99%” because the one percent of Americans “run” Americans verses the people living in the world. Another example would be from Rivera’s mural having an upper part of the mural with buildings the upper-class decided to have and the lower part with homelessness and empty banks that the lower-class had to live though. In addition to separation, the mural shows a different color design which has brighter colors on the upper part of the mural while the lower part is made with dark colors.  For this reason, I suspect that back then people were dirt poor and while the wealthy people are making the big changes to the world; bring different colors to America. I also see this same color design with the Occupy Movement having the upper-class people wearing plain dark business colors and the lower-class wearing more colorful attire. As a result, in the 80 years of the same dilemma, I see how back then and today, the upper-class people are doing things without everyone’s involvement and having the lower-class deal with the consequences.  However, both parties did construct inspiration for both generations by creating a revolutionary idea of change. This is a reality of upper-class people is becoming a lifestyle no one can fit and causing the lower-class to suffer with debt.