LOS ANGELES -- En 1932, David Alfaro Siqueiros, un reconocido muralista mexicano, fue contratado para pintar un mural en el lugar de nacimiento de Los Ángeles, la calle Olvera. Se suponía que el mural ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- In 1932, David Alfaro Siqueiros, a renown Mexican muralist, was commissioned to paint a mural in Los Angeles' birthplace, Olvera Street. The mural, America Tropical, ...
David Alfaro Siqueiros’s "Street Meeting" confronted an anti-union climate in 1930s L.A. David Alfaro Siquieros's provocative mural "Street Meeting" challenged racial prejudice and hostility around ...
David Alfaro Siqueiros created Olvera Street’s popular mural with an innovative technique. Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros created Olvera Street’s popular “América Tropical” ...
Don’t hold your breath, but the 33-year effort to return “America Tropical” -- Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros’ mural on Olvera Street -- to public view appears to be entering its final phase.
Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros was never one to shy away from controversy: a Stalinist, a member of the Mexican Communist Party, and a participant in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate ...
John M. Valadez and Barbara Carrasco on David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural "América Tropical." John M. Valadez and Barbara Carrasco on David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural "América Tropical." Located at El Pueblo ...
A little-known Los Angeles art treasure--a monumental mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico’s most renowned and controversial artists--has been donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
David Alfaro Siqueiros’ other extant mural in Southern California, “America Tropical,” also painted in 1932, has a long preservation tale of its own. Like “Portrait of Mexico Today, 1932” it too has ...