Olga's Gallery
David Alfaro Siqueiros
(1896 - 1974)
Biography
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David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896 - 1974) was a Mexican painter and one of the founders of the Mexican Mural Movement, one of the "Big Three", with Jose Clemente Orosco and Diego Rivera. He was also a Communist, life-long political activist, veteran of the Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil War, sometime political prisoner, outspoken polemicist and would-be assassin. Throughout his life, he espoused the ideal that art, by its nature, had to be political in order to carry any substance, decrying the art of capitalist Europe and the United States. Siqueiros went, perhaps, the furthest of all the muralists in his attempts to combine his political views and aesthetic ideals with modern technical means to create a truly "public art". Read David Alfaro Siqueiros's Full Biography
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El Senor dell Veneno. 1918. Watercolor and crayon. 58 x 46 cm. Private collection. 
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Carlos Orozco Romero. 1918. Oil on burlap. 86 x 58 cm. Private collection.
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The Dance of the Rain. 1919. Watercolor. An Art Nouveau illustration published in the newspaper "", January 24, 1919.
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Amado de la Cueva. 1920. Oil on canvas. 127 x 91 cm. Patrimony of Jalisco, Guadalahara, Mexico.
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The Elements. 1922. Ceiling over stairway.Encaustic. National Preparatory School, Mexico, Mexico.
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Proletarian Mother. 1929. Oil on burlap. 249 x 180 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, Mexico.
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Peasant Mother. 1929. Oil on burlap. 249 x 180 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, Mexico.
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Zapata and Lombardo Toledano. 1930. Oil on burlap. Mexican Revolution threatened as seen in the distorted faces of Zapata and Toledano. The arm of the Revolution sinks in the shark-infested waters.
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Portrait of a Dead Child. 1931. Oil on burlap. 96 x 74 cm. Private collection.
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Hart Crane. 1931. Oil on canvas. 79 x 63 cm.
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Guerilla Fighters. Sketch for the mural Tropical America. 1932. Pencil and india ink. 28 x 21 cm. Private collection.
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Tropical America. 1932. Reconstructed rendering. Cement fresco mural (obliterated with white wash). Olivera Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Tropical America. Detail. 1932. Detail. Cement fresco mural (obliterated with white wash). Olivera Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Portrait of Present Day Mexico. 1932. Mural in fresco. Private collection.
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The Child Mother. 1936. Pyroxylin. 76 x 61 cm. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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Birth of Fascism. 1936. Pyroxylin on Masonite. 75 x 60 cm. Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico, Mexico.
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Head of a Woman. 1936. Pyroxylin on Masonite. 77 x 61 cm. Private collection.
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George Gershwin. 1936. Oil on canvas. 254 x 161 cm. Private collection.
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The Echo of the Scream. 1937. Pyroxylin. 125 x 90 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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The Sob. 1939. Pyroxylin. 122 x 61 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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