David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican painter, political activist, and one of the founding figures of the Mexican muralist movement, known for dynamic, dramatically foreshortened compositions and for experimenting with industrial materials such as spray guns, synthetic paints, and pyroxylin lacquers to give his murals a bold, mechanized visual energy. A committed communist who took part in armed political conflict, including an attempted assassination of Leon Trotsky, Siqueiros used his murals, such as Portrait of the Bourgeoisie in Mexico City, to advance explicitly revolutionary and anti-fascist political messages. His technical experimentation with new materials and working methods also influenced later artists, including the young Jackson Pollock, who studied briefly in his experimental workshop in New York.
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Death PlaceCuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 1 Partially Attested
TrainingAcademy of San Carlos, National Academy of Fine Arts 1 The source shows him as a student at the Academy of San Carlos in 1911, in a student strike; it does not state how long he studied there. Connections
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One of the three founders of the Mexican Muralism movement.
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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.
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David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896
Lead, first sentence (birth date)
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896
Later life, death sentence (death year)
Siqueiros died in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on January 6, 1974
Later life, death sentence (death date)
Siqueiros died in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on January 6, 1974
Later life, death sentence (death place)
Siqueiros died in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on January 6, 1974
Lead, first sentence (nationality)
was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.
Early life, 1911 student strike sentence
In 1911, 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
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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.
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
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