David Alfaro Siqueiros, the artist who turned politics into art

In an interview that the poet Sergio Mondragón He made Siqueiros inside the prison, the muralist commented: “With the scenery of Licensed, don't hurrymade of screen, the genre of artistic painting applied to the theater began, a novel style of undoubted future. ” He also created different lithographs.

The march of humanity on earth and towards the cosmos of David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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Important works

• Portrait of the bourgeoisie (1939)Embodied on the walls of the former headquarters of the Mexican Union of Electricians, in the Tabacalera neighborhood. While the project is not completely authorship, (Spanish artists participated in Mexico such as José Renau, Antonio Pujol and Luís Arenal), he headed the work that began to be painted in July 1939 and ended in October 1940.

• Siqueiros Public Art RoomSiqueiros decided that his house should be a legacy for his country, instead of inheriting her relatives. Thus, in 1969, the artist turned this house into the Public Art Room Siqueiros, which serves both to preserve his work and to function as a center for experimentation, analysis and exhibition of public art.

• The march of humanity on earth and towards the cosmosAlso called the largest mural in the world, it is the work that gives life to the Cultural Polyforum, which was opened in 1971. He speaks of the metaphor of man and woman in search of a better society for all.

• From Porfirismo to the RevolutionYou can visit at the Museum of Art of History at Chapultepec Castle. It is full of symbolisms of national history, where you can see Porfirio Díaz sitting in the presidential chair and stepping on the Constitution. From right to left, break down the political and social situation of Mexico, from a bourgeois dance to the revolutionary people.