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On the morning of 24 May 1940[[1]]( , approximately twenty men disguised as police officers stormed the Coyoacán home of Leon Trotsky and fired more than two hundred bullets into his bedroom. Trotsky and his wife survived by hiding under the bed. The operation was led by David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico's most celebrated muralists, who had recently returned from commanding Republican troops in the Spanish Civil War. That particular assassination attempt failed; Trotsky was killed by different means three months later. Born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on 29 December 1896[[1]]( in Santa Rosalía de Camargo, Chihuahua, he fought in the Mexican[[1]]( Revolution as a young soldier before travelling to Europe in the early 1920s on a government grant. With Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, together known as Los Tres Grandes, he developed Mexican Muralism into the dominant artistic movement of the postwar Americas: large-scale public frescoes addressing history, labour, and political struggle. Where Rivera favoured allegory and Orozco expressionist anguish, Siqueiros brought an industrial energy to his surfaces. He pioneered the use of spray guns, airbrushes, and pyroxylin lacquer, embracing the materials of the factory floor rather than the studio. In 1932[[1]]( , working in Los Angeles, he painted Tropical America on a public wall in Olvera Street. The mural, depicting an indigenous figure crucified under an American eagle, was whitewashed by city authorities shortly after completion. In 1936 he ran an experimental workshop in New York where he taught drip and pour painting techniques to a class that included a young Jackson Pollock. His Portrait of the Bourgeoisie (1939–40) for the Mexican[[1]]( Electricians' Union in Mexico City remains one of the most forceful political murals of the 20th century. Siqueiros was imprisoned in 1960[[1]]( for publicly criticising the Mexican[[1]]( president and was not pardoned until 1964. He spent his final years completing The March of Humanity (1957–71), a monumental mural cycle housed in the Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City, the largest mural complex he ever realised. He died in Cuernavaca in January 1974[[1]]( . David Alfaro Siqueiros is known for developing Mexican[[1]]( Muralism with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Together, the three artists, known as Los Tres Grandes, created large-scale public frescoes addressing history, labour, and political struggle; Siqueiros brought an industrial energy to his murals and embraced materials from the factory floor. David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896[[1]]( -1974[[1]]( ) was a Mexican[[1]]( painter known for his murals and political activism. He, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco founded the Mexican muralist school after the Revolution. Siqueiros's style is impassioned, dynamic, and often carries ideological meaning. Siqueiros was politically active; he was imprisoned and exiled numerous times. In 1932[[1]]( , he travelled to Los Angeles and organised a group of mural painters. That same year, he had an exhibition at the Stendhal Ambassador Galleries in Los Angeles, displaying work from his political exile in Taxco. In 1936, Siqueiros established an experimental workshop in New York. His prints often reflect his mural work, with bold compositions and striking use of colour. His art blends reality and fantasy, influenced by Surrealism and Mexican folk art. One notable work, "Death and Funeral of Cain" (1947), uses acrylic on panel to depict a crowd seemingly venerating a dead chicken, a commentary on the futility of their actions. David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896[[1]]( -1974[[1]]( ) is best known as one of the leading figures in the Mexican[[1]]( muralism movement. This artistic trend emerged after the Mexican Revolution of 1910[[1]]( . Many Mexican artists, including Siqueiros, used their work to express the nation's political ideologies. Siqueiros, along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, is considered a founder of this sch