Source: WTL research files.
Fresco: "Liberation of the Peon" (1931), in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This fresco is similar to a mural of the same title in the Secretaría de Educación Pública, in Mexico City.
Comments: In 1930, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo went to San Francisco for the opening of an exhibition of his works, and where he prepared for creating a work called "Allegory of California" for the Stock Exchange. At the end of the year he went to New York. In 1931 he had an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, he vacationed in California, and he returned to Mexico City to continue working in the Palacio Nacional. Also, he did a series of drawings and watercolors on the Popol Vuh (see: <= Notes of the Popol Vuh). In 1931, the Russian cinematographer Sergei Eisenstein dedicated a section of his famous movie, ¡Que Viva México!, to Rivera. At the end of the year he paints canvases on Mexican themes such as the one seen above, and he prepares for a show of his works atthe Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City.
Humanities Question: In what way does this fresco communicate the idea of the "liberation of the Mexican peon"?