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David Alfaro Siqueiros

1896–1974 · 20th century

David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican painter, one of the three great artists of the Mexican mural movement with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. A committed communist, he experimented with industrial paints and techniques and painted large political murals in Mexico, the United States and South America. In 1940 he took part in an armed attack on Leon Trotsky's house in Mexico City.

David Alfaro Siqueiros
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). David Alfaro Siqueiros. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/david-alfaro-siqueiros
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