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David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists".
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culture · Mexican social realist painter (1896–1974) · painter · university teacher · military personnel · printmaker · fresco painter · graphic artist · artist · also David Alfaro Siqueiros, David Alʹfaro Sikeĭros, José David Alfaro Siqueiros, Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siquieros, David Alvaro Siqueiros
Born 29 December 1896 · Died 6 January 1974 · Q315647
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: David Alfaro Siqueiros
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Philip Stein papers regarding David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1933-2012
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2024· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: FBI Files on David Alfaro Siqueiros (photocopies)
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2014· 1 entry
globo: David Alfaro Siqueiros: o muralista mexicano que queria matar Trotsky
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2003· 2 entries
Was by a Mexican art curator the following year by art critic Raquel Tibol, who was renowned as the leading authority on Mexican Muralism and who had been a close acquaintance of Siqueiros, although there hasn't been any
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It was proven that he was born in the city of Chihuahua after the discovery of his birth certificate, but grew up in Irapuato, Guanajuato, at least from the age of six
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1974· 3 entries
In the company of Angélica Arenal Bastar (1909-1989), who had been his partner since the Spanish Civil War
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Died 1974-01-06.
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“Jest ostry jak potrawa z chilli i czerwony jak peleryna matadora.”
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1971· 1 entry
After years of extension and delay, the mural broke from some previous stylistic mandates, if only by its complex message
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1966).
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Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1966).
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1960· 1 entry
For openly criticizing the President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, and leading protests against the arrests of striking workers and teachers, though the charges were commonly known to be false
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1957· 1 entry
Began work on 4,500-square-foot (420 m2) government commission for Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City; Del porfirismo a la Revolución was his biggest mural yet
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1950· 1 entry
And he received the second prize for all exhibitors, which recognized the international status of Mexican art
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1948· 1 entry
Siqueiros was invited to teach a course on mural painting at an art academy in San Miguel Allende
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1940· 2 entries
Led a failed assassination attempt on Leon Trotsky in which Trotsky's 14-year-old grandson was shot and American communist Robert Sheldon Harte was executed
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Prior to completing the mural for the Mexican Electricians' Union, Siqueiros was forced into hiding and later exiled for his direct involvement in an attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky, then in exile in Mexico City from
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1936· 1 entry
Was the guest of honor at the "Contemporary Arts" exhibition at the St
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1932· 3 entries
At the Italian Hall at Olvera Street in Los Angeles
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Nelbert Chouinard invited Siqueiros to Los Angeles to conduct mural workshops
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Led an exhibition and conference entitled "Rectifications on Mexican Muralism" at the gallery of the Spanish Casino in Taxco, Guerrero
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1925· 1 entry
Siqueiros remained deeply involved in labor activities, in the Syndicate as well as the Mexican Communist Party, until he was jailed and eventually exiled in the early 1930s
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1923· 1 entry
Siqueiros helped found the Syndicate of Revolutionary Mexican Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, which addressed the problem of public access to art through its paper, El Machete
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1922· 1 entry
Siqueiros returned to Mexico City to work as a muralist for Álvaro Obregón's revolutionary government
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1914· 1 entry
Siqueiros became enmeshed in the "post-revolutionary" infighting, as the Constitutional Army battled the diverse political factions of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata for control
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1911· 1 entry
At the age of fifteen, Siqueiros was involved in a student strike at the Academy of San Carlos of the National Academy of Fine Arts that protested the school's teaching methodology and urged the impeachment of the school
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1906· 1 entry
Calling for Mexican artists to develop a national art and look to ancient indigenous cultures for inspiration
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1902· 1 entry
Siqueiros started school in Irapuato, Guanajuato
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-12-29.
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