Mexican Muralism

The artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siquieros, and José Clemente Orozco (Los Tres Grandes) created large-scale murals as an expression of national identity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. The mural as an art form was rooted in Indigenous Mexican and European culture and was seen as both public and political. Los Tres Grandes initially found patronage with the revolutionary government of Mexico and later in the United States.