David alfaro siqueiros biography painter(1896–1974)
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David alfaro siqueiros biography painter(1896–1974)
David Alfaro Siqueiros
(1896-1974)
Who Was David Alfaro Siqueiros?
In 1922, David Alfaro Siqueiros painted frescoes on the walls of the National Preparatory School and began organizing and leading unions of artists and workingmen.
His Communist activities led to numerous jailings and periods of exile. He produced thousands of square feet of wall paintings in which numerous social, political and industrial changes were portrayed from a left-wing perspective.
Early Years
The son of a bourgeois family, painter Siqueiros was born in Chihuahua City, Mexico, on December 29, 1896.
In 1908 he went to Mexico City to study art and architecture at the Franco-English College.
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His schooling came at an interesting time in Mexican history. In 1910 the Mexican Revolution erupted, and a newly politicized Siqueiros became involved in student strikes. The following year he led a successful student strike at the San Carlos Academy that changed the school's teaching methods.
At the age of 1