Vista Aerea David Alfaro Siqueiros 1969

Vista Aerea
David Alfaro Siqueiros 1969
From the collection of
Museum of Latin American Art
10 Lithographs included in the Mountain Suite portfolio
ed. 209/250
Details
Title: Vista Aerea
Creator: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Date Created: 1969
Title translation: Aerial View
Physical Dimensions: w16 x h22.25 in
Type: Print
Rights: Gift of the Mongan Family
External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
Medium: Lithograph on paper

Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach, United States

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) was founded in 1996 in Long
Beach, California and serves the greater Los Angeles area. MOLAA is the
only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and
contemporary Latin American art. Since its inception, MOLAA has doubled
its size, added a 15,000 sq. ft. sculpture garden and expanded its
permanent collection, ranging from works by Tamayo and Matta to
Cruz-Diez, Los Carpinteros and Tunga.

David Alfaro Siqueiros
Dec 29, 1896 - Jan 6, 1974

David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." He was a Stalinist and member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.
His surname would normally be Alfaro by Spanish naming customs; like Picasso and Lorca, Siqueiros used his mother's surname. It was long believed that he was born in Camargo in Chihuahua state, but in 2003 it was proven that he had actually been born in the city of Chihuahua, but grew up in Irapuato, Guanajuato, at least from the age of six. The discovery of his birth certificate in 2003 by a Mexican art curator was announced the following year by art critic Raquel Tibol, who was renowned as the leading authority on Mexican Muralism and who had been a close acquaintance of Siqueiros. Siqueiros changed his given name to "David" after his first wife called him by it in allusion to Michelangelo's David. Another factual confusion is the year of his birth: he was born in 1896, but many sources state 1898 or 1899.
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