David Alfaro Siqueiros
- Introduction
- 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, best known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists". He was a member of the Mexican Communist Party, and a Stalinist and supporter of the Soviet Union who led an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.By accordance with Spanish naming customs, his surname would normally have been Alfaro; however, like Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) and Lorca (Federico García Lorca), Siqueiros used his mother's surname. It was long believed that he was born in Camargo in Chihuahua state, but in 2003 it was proven that he had actually been born in the city of Chihuahua, but grew up in Irapuato, Guanajuato, at least from the age of six. The discovery of his birth certificate in 2003 by a Mexican art curator was announced 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. Siqueiros changed his given name to "David" after his first wife called him by it in allusion to Michelangelo's David.
- Wikidata
- Q315647
- Introduction
- Mexican painter. Comment on works: genre
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Painter
- Names
- David Alfaro Siqueiros, David Alʹfaro Sikeĭros, José David Alfaro Siqueiros, David Alvaro Siqueiros, David Alfaro Siquieros, Siqueiros
- Ulan
- 500008908
Exhibitions
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522: Responding to War
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
MoMA
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MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Mar 4–Jul 25, 2004
MoMA
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Making Choices
Mar 16–Sep 26, 2000
MoMA
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David Alfaro Siqueiros has
51 exhibitionsonline.
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Collective Suicide 1936
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Zapata 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Moisés Sáenz 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Seated Nude 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Untitled from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Cover from 13 Woodcuts by Siqueiros (13 Grabados en madera por Siqueiros) 1931
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Proletarian Victim 1933
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Echo of a Scream 1937
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Soldier (Militar) 1937
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Ethnography 1939
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David Alfaro Siqueiros The Sob 1939
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Head of an Indian (n.d.)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros The Centaur of the Conquest (1944)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Guardian of the Peace (1945)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Our Image (Nuestra Imagen) (1947)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Latin America (1947)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Hands 1949
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