PAINTER

David Alfaro Siqueiros

1896 - 1974

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David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he was one of the most famous of the "Mexican muralists". Siqueiros was a member of the Mexican Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Alfaro Siqueiros has received more than 842,505 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). David Alfaro Siqueiros is the 303rd most popular painter (up from 319th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 29th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Painter.

David Alfaro Siqueiros is most famous for his mural work in Mexico during the 1920s.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, David Alfaro Siqueiros ranks 303 out of 2,023Before him are Carlo Carrà, Horace Vernet, Pieter Claesz, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Masolino da Panicale, and Vasily Vereshchagin. After him are Adriaen van Ostade, Daniele da Volterra, Viktor Vasnetsov, Paulus Potter, Alexej von Jawlensky, and Karel van Mander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, David Alfaro Siqueiros ranks 40Before him are John Dos Passos, A. J. Cronin, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Sandro Pertini, Anastasio Somoza García, and Lewis Strauss. After him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Nobusuke Kishi, Tina Modotti, Herbert Backe, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Gottlob Berger. Among people deceased in 1974, David Alfaro Siqueiros ranks 29Before him are Zalman Shazar, Satyendra Nath Bose, Peng Dehuai, Otto Strasser, Lewis Strauss, and Louis Kahn. After him are Patrick Blackett, Fritz Zwicky, Walter Lippmann, Cass Elliot, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Vannevar Bush.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, David Alfaro Siqueiros ranks 24 out of 729Before him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), La Malinche (1502), Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Moctezuma I (1398), and Francisco I. Madero (1873). After him are Hugo Sánchez (1958), Vicente Fox (1942), Lázaro Cárdenas (1895), Cantinflas (1911), Guillermo del Toro (1964), and Álvaro Obregón (1880).

Among PAINTERS In Mexico

Among painters born in Mexico, David Alfaro Siqueiros ranks 3Before him are Frida Kahlo (1907), and Diego Rivera (1886). After him are José Clemente Orozco (1883), Rufino Tamayo (1899), Juan O'Gorman (1905), Emmanuel Lubezki (1964), Francisco Toledo (1940), and Ignacio Ortiz (1934).