The
Liberation of the Peon by Diego Rivera and monument to the proletariat and
agriculture by Vera Mukhina is very different in terms of social realism. Both
works seem to share the same subject - the common man. However, the work of
Rivera portrays sympathy to the plight of the subject. Mukhina's work however,
is a propaganda tool characteristic of Soviet Art – portraying the common man as
the ‘center’ and main driver of communism.
