David Alfaro Siqueiros
Landscape in Red (Paisaje en rojo)1969

Not on view

Artist or Maker: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexico, Santa Rosalía de Camargo, active Mexico City and Cuernavaca, 1896-1974
Title: Landscape in Red (Paisaje en rojo)
Date Made: 1969
Medium: Acrylic on board
Dimensions: Frame: 26 3/4 × 41 × 1 1/2 in. (67.95 × 104.14 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.431
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Landscape in Red (Paisaje en rojo) is an intense composition that demonstrates David Alfaro Siqueiros's remarkable paint handling and his ability to convey emotion through color and form. Siqueiros was a lifelong revolutionary whose creative expression remained directly tied to political activism. He not only produced an influential body of political-artistic theory but also was the most technically innovative of the Mexican muralists known as 'Los Tres Grandes' (the Big Three), which also included Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949).

In 1932, Siqueiros taught a class in mural painting in Los Angeles at the Chouinard School of Art. Jackson Pollock (1930-1992) studied at his Experimental Workshop in New York in 1936, and Pollock's famous drip technique has been linked to Siqueiros's earlier, related explorations.

Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexico, Santa Rosalía de Camargo, active Mexico City and Cuernavaca, 1896-1974
Title: Landscape in Red (Paisaje en rojo)
Date Made: 1969
Medium: Acrylic on board
Dimensions: Frame: 26 3/4 × 41 × 1 1/2 in. (67.95 × 104.14 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.431
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Landscape in Red (Paisaje en rojo) is an intense composition that demonstrates David Alfaro Siqueiros's remarkable paint handling and his ability to convey emotion through color and form. Siqueiros was a lifelong revolutionary whose creative expression remained directly tied to political activism. He not only produced an influential body of political-artistic theory but also was the most technically innovative of the Mexican muralists known as 'Los Tres Grandes' (the Big Three), which also included Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949).

In 1932, Siqueiros taught a class in mural painting in Los Angeles at the Chouinard School of Art. Jackson Pollock (1930-1992) studied at his Experimental Workshop in New York in 1936, and Pollock's famous drip technique has been linked to Siqueiros's earlier, related explorations.

Ilona Katzew, 2008
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.