Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter

The Museum of Latin American Art will exhibit until January 30 of 2011, the work by renowned muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Regarded as one of the most important Mexican artists of the Twentieth Century, Siqueiros belongs to the school of Diego Rivera. His works markedly demonstrate his political activism in which he underscores the problems and effects of the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Thus, Siqueiros is one of the artists that publicly declared that art can be used on behalf of social and political causes. This artist's exploration of several mediums and materials results in pieces that combine "atypical" materials that become part of the final work. The exhibition reveals Siqueiros as a great landscape artist; in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City), the exhibition presents close to 75 works created between 1930 and 1973, in which great contrasts can be clearly observed. Some of the works reveal the futurism and imaginary places that stem from Siqueiros' imagination. Other paintings approach the past as they underscore political themes. Such is the case of works like El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) and La Explosión de Hiroshima (The Hiroshima Explosion)