“Volcán fosforescente” alternatively
“Paisaje Explosivo”

David Alfaro Siqueiros is known as one of the most famous Mexican muralists of the early 20th Century among other greats like Aurora Reyes Flores, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera. Siqueiros was also an accomplished painter and printmaker who was part of a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. Siqueiros’ art was informed by his lifelong commitment to marxist ideals and support the oppressed and working class, which included fighting in the Mexican Revolution, and variously being jailed, and commissioned as an artist, by the Mexican State.

“Paisaje Explosivo” is a color lithograph depicting an erupting volcano that Siqueiros produced as part of a series of works known as the “Mountain Suite.” This work was published in 1969, five years before the artist’s death in 1974.

The volcano could be read as a metaphor for Siqueiros’ lifelong commitment to the struggle of the poor and working-class to upend oppressive capitalist power structures–both characterized by long periods of perceived calm, and dormancy that will inevitably be disrupted by the eruption of long-simmering tensions, just under the surface of society, or in this metaphor–the Earth. Siqueiros’ landscapes in the Mountain Suite emit explosive emotion.

Siqueiros’ fine art prints are in the collections of some of the world’s most well-known museums, including but not limited to, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This particular lithograph is also in the collection of the University of Michigan.

Title:

Volcán fosforescente (“Phosphorescent Volcano”), sometimes labeled as “Paisaje Explosivo”

Material:

Lithograph on paper; Printed by Atelier Mourlot in Paris, France

Edition:

Artist Proof of an edition of 250 (#3 written in pencil on the verso)

Signed in pencil

Price:

$1,450

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