
Moises Saenz
<p>With Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros was a founder of the renowned school of Mexican mural painting. A Marxist activist since his youth, he fought in the Mexican Revolution and later studied art in Europe. In the early 1930s, he was an influential professor of art in Los Angeles. Later, while in exile from Mexico, he also lived in Chile and Cuba. In this monumental portrait lithograph, he expressed his admiration for Mexican writer, educator, politician, and diplomat Moises Saenz.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1931
- Dimensions
- Image: 44.5 × 41 cm (17 9/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 66 × 50.8 cm (26 × 20 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
Artist

Painting
David Alfaro Siquieros, alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, spearheaded the Mexican mural renaissance that established a powerful new visual lexicon for post-revolutionary Mexico and inspired politically-conscious artists the world over. Of these three artists – dubbed los tres grandes – whose monumental public works exalted the indigenous warrior and the common farmer, Siquieros is considered the most technically innovative and ideologically radical, employing unusual materials like automotive lacquer, asbestos and pyroxene to manifest a sweeping vision of a futuristic society run by an electrified proletariat.
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- David Alfaro Siqueiros
- Year
- 1931
- Dimensions
- Image: 44.5 × 41 cm (17 9/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 66 × 50.8 cm (26 × 20 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1931-084293
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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- View at source
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