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David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua – January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco.
During the period in 1932 when David Alfaro Siqueiros was in Los Angeles, he painted three murals: Street Meeting at the Chouinard Art Institute; América Tropical at El Pueblo de Los Angeles; and Portrait of Mexico Today at a private residence in Pacific Palisades.
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
Summary of David Alfaro Siqueiros. Siqueiros was the youngest of "los tres grandes" (three greats) of Mexican muralism, along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. He was also the most radical of the three in his technique, composition and political ideology.
The first of three murals he created while in Los Angeles was “Street Meeting,” painted on an exterior wall of the school’s inner courtyard. By 1934, it had been painted over for reasons that remain unclear.
In October 1932, revolutionary artist and political activist David Alfaro Siqueiros completed América Tropical on the Italian Hall on downtown's Olvera Street. Commissioned by La Plaza Art Center, the eighty-foot long mural was intended to depict a romanticized view of tropical America, a land of plenty.
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...
