Mexican art in the 20th century has been unusually closely tied in with the social and political situation and its sociological condition has not been paralleled in any contemporary culture. It has been ideological, educational and deliberately subserving the propagation of the ideals and aspirations of the revolutionary state. Since the Revolution of 1910 official patronage, both federal and national, went further than in any other country and brought an almost total commitment of artists to their social responsibilities within the new cultural orbit. Even the most prominent and individual artists – Gabriel Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, whose names have transcended the national boundaries, devoted their talents to furthering the revolutionary ideals and furnishing for the new cultural ideas firm roots in native tradition. The position of art in the state as the chief cultural manifestation of the Revolution determined both its iconology and its genre.