Word: battal
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Siqueiros thought he had the answer: the new painters were not fighters. He himself had served his first jail sentence at 13 (for sparking a student strike). At 15 he became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private...
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