MEXICAN MURALISM — RIVERA OROZCO SIQUEIROS

VISUAL STYLE: Mexican muralism — the monumental tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Figures that fill walls. History made visible at the scale of public space. Art in service of a people's understanding of their own story.

COLOUR PALETTE: Warm sienna (#A0522D) and ochre (#CC7722) — the colours of earth, of terracotta, of Mexico. Deep Prussian blue (#003153) for shadow and sky. Vivid turquoise (#30D5C8) — the colour of folk ceramics and the interior of old churches. Warm red (#CC2200) for emphasis. The palette has the warmth of fresco on stone walls.

FIGURES: Large, solid, monumental. Figures built from simple geometric volumes — Rivera's workers and farmers with square shoulders and broad hands. Indigenous and mestizo faces given the dignity of classical subjects. Groups arranged in registers — near figures large and close, distant figures rising above rather than receding behind.

COMPOSITION: The entire picture plane used. No empty space. History presses from every corner. Multiple temporal moments in a single image — past, present, and anticipated future side by side.

TECHNIQUE: The visible texture of rough plaster beneath painted surface. The slightly matte quality of fresco. Outlines not hidden — the image makes no attempt to disguise that it was made by human hands.

No photographs. No photorealism. Monumental figures, warm earth palette, and the moral weight of mural tradition throughout.