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Reading Huebner’s article (10/29/93) on the “swashbuckling” Hector Duarte and his murals we are told of his (Huebner’s) “awe” at learning that Duarte had been enrolled at the Siqueiros Mural Workshop, we learn that (of Rivera, Orozco, and) Siqueiros was “the most radical of the three, aesthetically and politically . . . ” and “Siqueiros was a charismatic, polemical Communist Party firebrand . . . ” more “He was repeatedly jailed . . . for his leftist activism and hounded from one country to another.” Then “Though Hector never worked directly with Siqueiros, he feels he knows him. . . . a master . . . a natural born leader who risked his neck for his politics . . . ” Finally, bemoaning the “tremendous disenchantment and a lack of belief in art . . . ” and “How much art can you say these days is heroic?” Hector smiles and says “It’s not enchiladas.”
Marc Vesecky
