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April 12-13, 2019

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José Clemente Orozco, “Hidalgo” (Guadalajara, Palacio de Gobierno, 1937)

Remembered as the iconic los tres grandes in Mexico’s pictorial movement that surged after the 1910 Revolution, José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), Diego Rivera (1886-1957), and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) were in fact artists with an international vision who periodically visited, or lived for long periods of time, in France, Italy, Spain, the former U.S.S.R, and the United States. It was in major U.S. cities--Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and, among others, San Francisco--where all three undertook mural projects whose artistic importance continues to receive scholarly attention to this day, with recent comprehensive studies sup

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Lower panel of “Detroit Industry, North Wall”, 1923-33. Diego Rivera.
Rivera came to the United States in 1930 and was commissioned to create what would eventually become a 26-panel mural cycle filling all four walls of the covered courtyard of the Detroit Institute of Arts. This enormous undertaking began in 1932.
Image courtesy of: Whitney Museum of American Art

Some of America’s best known artists count European modernist artists such as Picasso and Miro as their biggest influences. However often overlooked is the time they spent in New York City’s Experimental Workshop. The studio was founded in 1936 by David Alfaro Siquerios, a Mexican social realist painter who is best known for his large murals in fresco. This political art workshop prepared floats ahead of the 1936 General Strike for Peace and the May Day parade. In addition, the Experimental Workshop produced a variety of posters for anti-fascist organizations in New York.

The large-scale works that they produced possessed the ability to reach “the masses” in ways different from mural paintings because they were easily accessible to a wide audience outside of museums and galleries. Herein lies the idea behind the post revolution Mexican muralist movement. Most influenced by t