Agrarian Leader Zapata created in 1931 was painted by a Mexican painter Diego Rivera. This painting shows the slain revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata during 1879 to 1919 and the campesinos and the farm working followed him.

When I visited the MOMA, few paint attract me but  Agrarian Leader Zapata attracted me the most. At first I look at this paint I thought their was a war going on. However, in-depth knowledge I find out Rivera portrayed Zapata as a leader of the peasant movement leader, on the paint Rivera draw  the bodies of ranchers lay on his feet. I think Rivera is a creative and legendary man, according to his biographer, Mariano Rivera’s mouth in his later years, he use his own past experiences I think  which have been his own legend. In this mural, I think he wanted to represent Zapata as a sympathy toiling masses of the revolutionary leader. As a good rider, Zapata often claim to be “cowboy”, dressed in fine clothes, tight riding pants silvery bright decoration. But in this paint Zapata dressed very simplicity it positioning does not fully comply with Zapata idea of “cowboy.” For me the way Zapata dress it is a little unexpected of what I think during this painting. It only use two color to shows the clothes of the people on the painting: white Zapata and his farm working, and brown the bodies of ranchers. Zapata he is a Mexican bourgeois revolutionary leader, but during this picture his simplicity white clothe let me feel ironic I think it is belong to the civilians.