Title: The Mexican Renaissance | Boundless Art History
Headings: The Mexican Renaissance
The Mexican Renaissance
Mexican Muralism
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Key Takeaways
Key Points
Key Terms
Mexican Muralism
Los Tres Grandes
Diego Rivera
Jose Clemente Orozco
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican Painting: Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo
Paintings
Influences
Artistic Legacy

Content: Orozco, one of the three great muralists of the 20th century, painted murals that were more critical and pessimistic that his peers. David Alfaro Siqueiros
Siqueiros was the youngest and most radical of the three, having joined the Venustiano Carranza army when he was 18 and who experienced the Revolution from the front lines. Although all three were communists, Siqueiros was the most dedicated, with his painting filled with portrayals of the proletarian masses. His work is also characterized with rapid, sweeping, bold lines and the use of modern enamels, machinery, and other elements related to technology. His radical politics made him unwelcome in Mexico and the United States, so he did much of his work in South America. His masterpiece is considered to be the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, located in Mexico City. Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros: Siquieros is known for his radical politics and murals, characterized by rapid, sweeping, bold lines. The Polyform Cultural Siqueiros is considered his masterpiece. Mexican muralism brought mural painting back to the forefront of Western art in the 20th century, and its influence spread abroad, especially to promote the idea of mural painting as a form to further social and political ideas.