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dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)

künstler: David Siqueiros

titel: Mural

jahr: 1932

adresse: John Reed Auditorium, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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«A third [unnamed] fresco by Siqueiros is now in process, this time in the auditorium of the John Reed Club of Hollywood. The four walls are to be covered with a mural symbolic of the cultural role of the club, it is announced. The work will be done, as at Chouinard and the Plaza Art Center, by a class of students working with the noted Mexican.» (Millier, 1932)

«Out of a lecture which Siqueiros gave at the John Reed Club of Hollywood, grew an interest to construct a mural in the auditorium of the club. Such a mural…is now in progress…In powerful perspective across the wall which faces the proscenium, march the ordered ranks of the international proletariat…» (Clements, 1932)