Retrato de la Burguesía (original) (raw)

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Mural painting by Renau and Siqueiros

Retrato de la Burguesía (English: Portrait of the Bourgoisie) is a mural painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros and Josep Renau, created for the Mexican Electricists Syndicate to be painted in their main headquarters,[1][2] located in the Antonio Caso Street, 45, in Ciudad de México.[3]

The mural is generally regarded as a work by Siqueiros, but it was finished by Renau (and his wife, Manuela Ballester)[4] after the Mexican artist had to flee when he was involved in an attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky.[1][5] Most of the photographic documentation and basic images in the Mural belongs to the Valencian artist,[1] whose influence can be found in the photomontage technique, the constructivist inconography in the roof, and the finishing.[1]

After its completion, Josep Renau started to work in his unifinished work La Marcha del proletariado, also known as La electrificación total de México acabará con la miseria del pueblo, being a project for a new mural for the same labor syndicate.[1]

1. ^ a b c d e Forment, Albert (2003). Josep Renau. Valencia: Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. ISBN 978-84-482-3677-9. OCLC 60356260.
2. ^ Subirats, Eduardo (2018-05-04). El muralismo mexicano: Mito y esclarecimiento (in Spanish). Fondo de Cultura Economica. ISBN 978-607-16-5613-1.
3. ^ Gruzinski, Serge (2012-02-02). La ciudad de México. Una historia (in Spanish). Fondo de Cultura Economica. ISBN 978-607-16-0895-6.
4. ^ Brihuega, Jaime (2018-07-05). Cambio de siglo, República y exilio: Arte del siglo XX en España (in Spanish). Antonio Machado Libros. ISBN 978-84-9114-171-6.
5. ^ VV, AA (2019-03-05). Rappresentazione materiale/immateriale - Drawing as (in) tangible: 40° Convegno internazionale dei Docenti delle discipline della Rappresentazione. Quindicesimo congresso UID – Milano 13/15 settembre 2018 / 40th International Conference of Teachers of the disciplines of the Representation. XV congress UID - Milan (in Italian). Gangemi Editore. ISBN 978-88-492-8651-9.