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...argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward its folklore, its social fervor and its peppery expressionism...
Singing the Internationale, 300 admirers greeted Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, on his release from a Mexico City jail, hoisted him on their shoulders and pressed a bunch of red, red roses into his arms. The Mexican government had set the fiery old Communist painter free after he had served four years of an eight-year sentence for inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced...
...DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS-New Art Center, 1193 Lexington Ave. at 81st. His huge mural left unfinished in Chapultepec Castle, Mexican Communist Siqueiros, 67, has for 31 years sat in prison serving time for "social dissolution." But the warden lets him paint, and his dancing brush creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. Through...
Mexico's patriarchal painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros, found guilty of Communist rabble rousing during some 1960 riots, is serving his fourth year in prison, with at least two to go. But locking up Siqueiros in a cell in Mexico City's Black Palace prison does not mean locking up his energy. Carrying out an old ambition, he has organized a baseball team, with himself at first base, which plays in the prison yard. And he steadily paints little pictures that sell at $1,500 apiece. This month Manhattan's New Art Center Gallery is showing 16 Siqueiros...
Paret's manager, Manuel Alfaro, assailed Referee Goldstein for failing to stop the bout sooner. "I was screaming 'Stop it! Stop it!'" said Alfaro. -"But he let the fight go on." Ringsiders, positioned near Paret's corner, could recall no such shouts...