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Pablo Siqueiros

Baritone Pablo Siqueiros is enjoying his second year as a Teaching Artist with Minnesota Opera. During his time there he has delivered educational programming to thousands of people, from toddlers to seniors, gaining praise for his innovative and friendly approach. He has also been seen onstage in Minnesota Opera’s recent productions of Silent Night and The Italian Straw Hat. Before moving to Minnesota, he was an established presence at the Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee where he served as their Education and Community Engagement Manager. In addition to his education work, he also performed with the Florentine Opera Company, Skylight Music Theater, Milwaukee Opera Theater, and Sugar Creek Opera (IL). As a Studio Artist with the Florentine Opera, he appeared in performances of Der Fliegende Holländer,Wuthering Heights, Elmer Gantry, and L’Elisir d’Amore. During the 2013/2014 season he performed the roles of Barone Douphol in La Traviata, Curio in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and Customs Sergeant in La Bohème.

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Summary of David Alfaro Siqueiros

Siqueiros was the youngest of "los tres grandes" (three greats) of Mexican muralism, along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. He was also the most radical of the three in his technique, composition and political ideology. Informed by revolutionary Marxist ideology, his career was dedicated to fostering change through public art. Over the course of five decades, he integrated avant-garde styles and techniques with traditional iconography and local histories. He, like Rivera, firmly believed that technology was a means to a better world and he sought to combine traditions of painting with modern political activism.

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Investing his work with his Marxist ideology, even when it cost him commissions and jeopardized his work, Siqueiros epitomizes the politically engaged artist. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he refused any commission that conflicted with his ideology. His commitment to education and his belief that public art could inform and inspire the masses to demand revolution has served as a model of activism for su
David Alfaro Siqueiros
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. Although he went to Spain to support the Spanish Republic against the forces of Francisco Franco with his art, he volunteered and served in frontline combat as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the Republic through 1938 before returning to Mexico City. In 1940, he led a failed assassination attempt on Leon Trotsky in which Trotsky's 14-year-old grandson was shot and American communist Robert Sheldon Harte was executed. After spending several months on the run from Mexican authorities disguised as a peasant, Siqueiros was eventually apprehended in Jalisco, although he would never be brought to trial and was freed shortly.
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