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Al margen del manifiesto del Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores
1924This document analyzes the national repercussions that the Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors] had on an art scene that was then dominated by individualism. Siqueiros [...]ICAA Record ID: 763287 -
Autobiografía de José Clemente Orozco : Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores. “El Manifiesto”. Socialización del Arte. Arte burgués y arte proletario. Rectificaciones
1942In this text, the painter José Clemente Orozco states that the “Manifiesto del Sindicato” [the Painters and Sculptors Manifesto] is “extraordinarily important; its influence has been felt for two decades and younger painters [...]ICAA Record ID: 796183 -
Carta a Orozco : en presencia de su actual exposición de pinturas, dibujos y grabados : en la casa del Colegio Nacional, (del 25 de septiembre pasado al 25 de octubre en curso)
1944In 1944, David Alfaro Siqueiros wrote an open letter to José Clemente Orozco in which he admitted that he could identify the different stages of his work. Siqueiros begins by saying that an artist’s work is not an individual creation but the [...]ICAA Record ID: 760439 -
Concurso permanente de dibujos proletarios
1925Inspired by the native talent of Mexican workers and peasants and their love of the visual arts, El Machete invited these two segments of their audience to be the sole participants in an ongoing drawing contest. The Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [...]ICAA Record ID: 764161 -
Conversación con David Alfaro Siqueiros sobre la pintura mural mexicana
1947In this biographical sketch, Loló de la Torriente defines the aspiration of David Alfaro Siqueiros as wanting to be recognized as a leader of socialist fighters rather than as a painter. The text is divided into four parts: Siqueiros, the man; the [...]ICAA Record ID: 772501 -
Declaraciones del Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores
1924In an open letter to the newspaper, David Alfaro Siqueiros makes a number of statements about the article published in the same paper defending students’ rights in terms of the paintings at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (ENP). Siqueiros [...]ICAA Record ID: 755362 -
El Sindicato de pintores y escultores combatirá en “El Machete”
1924In this brief article, Siqueiros, the secretary of the Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Painters and Sculptors Union], reports that the painters laid off from their work on public buildings due to the machinations of “reactionary” [...]ICAA Record ID: 764085 -
La Asociación de Pintores y Escultores instaló sus talleres
1917The article reports on the creation of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores Independientes located at the Calle Reloj, 6 in Mexico City. Its members included the artists José Clemente Orozco, José María. Fernández Urbina, David Alfaro [...]ICAA Record ID: 739654 -
Las decoraciones que pasaron a ser revolucionarias
1986Using newspaper sources, Esther Acevedo explores the diverse ways in which different groups of artists and intellectuals arose during 1920-1924 around the concept of “what is national,” particularly in the visual arts. She also investigates the [...]ICAA Record ID: 833203 -
Las pedradas como un sustituto de la razón
1924David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco and Xavier Guerrero signed this article in which they refute the assertions published by the Federación de Estudiantes Preparatorianos [Federation of Preparatory Students] and they list, one after [...]ICAA Record ID: 758002 -
Llamamiento al proletariado. ¿cómo abatir a la prensa burguesa?
1924David Alfaro Siqueiros, writing in El Machete, invites the proletariat to discuss their problems. His goal is to counter the middle-class press, where the disenfranchised are unrepresented. The article explains that the walls of public buildings have [...]ICAA Record ID: 751092 -
Manifiesto del Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos Pintores y Escultores
1923The Manifesto of the Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos Pintores y Escultores (SOTPE) [Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors Union] was published in El Machete toward the end of June 1924. It was an attempt to warn the proletariat and the indigenous [...]ICAA Record ID: 751080 -
Pintura de caballete y pintura de pulquería
1923Leading with the opinions of Ricardo Gómez Robelo, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, and Julio Torri, the editorial section of the newspaper has become sensitive to the new mural art and has allowed those versed in the new art to have their say. The article [...]ICAA Record ID: 758027 -
Protesta el Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores por los desperfectos causados en las pinturas que decoran los muros de la Preparatoria
1924The Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Union of Painters and Sculptors] protests the damages sustained to the paintings that “decorate” the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. David Alfaro Siqueiros, Xavier Guerrero and Diego Rivera argue that [...]ICAA Record ID: 757984