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[[Image:Siqueiros El Coronelazo.jpg|thumb|El Coronelazo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico.]]

[[Image:Siqueiros El Coronelazo.jpg|thumb|El Coronelazo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico.]]

'''David Alfaro Siqueiros''' (Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, 1896 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1974) [[Mexican]] Social Realist [[Muralism|Muralist]]. ''Along with [[Diego Rivera]] and [[Jose Clemente Orozco|José Clemente Orozco]] (the "Big Three"), Siqueiros was one of the most important artists in the Mexican mural movement.'' [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/ca/ho_31.91.7.htm] ''Mexican [[Muralism|muralism]] started during the first decades of the XX century... The murals of Siqueiros are characterized by an imposing strength and an esthetic full of drama and color.'' [http://www.explorandomexico.com/about-mexico/5/92/] Siqueiros was also a life-long political activist, a Communist, veteran of the Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil War; because of his political activism he was several times in prision. Issac Deutscher describes him as a man in whom ''"art, revolution and gangsterism were inseparable."''; he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. [http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/309-the-artist-as-activist-david-alfaro-siqueiros-1896%E2%80%931974]

'''David Alfaro Siqueiros''' (Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, 1896 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, 1974) [[Mexican]] Social Realist [[Muralism|Muralist]]. ''Along with [[Diego Rivera]] and [[Jose Clemente Orozco|José Clemente Orozco]] (the "Big Three"), Siqueiros was one of the most important artists in the Mexican mural movement.'' [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/ca/ho_31.91.7.htm] ''Mexican [[muralism]] started during the first decades of the XX century... The murals of Siqueiros are characterized by an imposing strength and an esthetic full of drama and color.'' [http://www.explorandomexico.com/about-mexico/5/92/] Siqueiros was also a life-long political activist, a Communist, veteran of the Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil War; because of his political activism he was several times in prision. Issac Deutscher describes him as a man in whom ''"art, revolution and gangsterism were inseparable."''; he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. [http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/309-the-artist-as-activist-david-alfaro-siqueiros-1896%E2%80%931974]

Siqueiros' first mural, ''The Elements'' (1922), was painted in a stairway of the National Preparatory School. Some of his most important works are: "Portrait of Eugene Jolas", c. 1936, "Proceso al fascismo", 1939, "Retrato de la Burguesía", 1939-1940, "Muerte al Invasor, 1942, "Alegoría de la Igualdad Racial en Cuba", 1944, "El Coronelazo", 1945, "La Nueva Democracia", 1944-1945, "Patricios y Patricidas", 1946, "Nuestra Imagen Actual", 1947, "Cuauhtémoc Contra el Mito" ca. 1964, and "Marcha de la Humanidad", 1971. His painting portrayed his ideals of nationalism.

Siqueiros' first mural, ''The Elements'' (1922), was painted in a stairway of the National Preparatory School. Some of his most important works are: "Portrait of Eugene Jolas", c. 1936, "Proceso al fascismo", 1939, "Retrato de la Burguesía", 1939-1940, "Muerte al Invasor, 1942, "Alegoría de la Igualdad Racial en Cuba", 1944, "El Coronelazo", 1945, "La Nueva Democracia", 1944-1945, "Patricios y Patricidas", 1946, "Nuestra Imagen Actual", 1947, "Cuauhtémoc Contra el Mito" ca. 1964, and "Marcha de la Humanidad", 1971. His painting portrayed his ideals of nationalism.