Founding Academician
National Fine Arts Award 1966
He was born on December 29, 1896 in Santa Rosalía de Camargo, Chihuahua, and died on January 4, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos. He began his studies in Painting in 1908 while intermittently attending the Academy of San Carlos, an institution which he joined regularly in 1911. In 1913 he entered the Santa Anita School of Open Air Painting and five years later he traveled to Europe where he met Diego Rivera. In 1921, during his stay in Barcelona, Spain, he wrote and published one of the founding texts for Mexican art of the first half of the 1922th century, and in XNUMX, back in Mexico, he joined the group of artists commissioned to carry out carried out the mural iconographic program of the National Preparatory School.
In addition to having been part of multiple organizations such as the Executive Committee of the Mexican Communist Party, the Latin American Trade Union Confederation, the League of Writers and Artists of Uruguay and the National League against Fascism and War, in 1935 he created, in New York, the “ Siqueiros Experimental Workshop”. Three years later, in 1951, he edited the magazine Public Art and, in 1965, he founded “La Tallera”. Throughout his life he received multiple distinctions and tributes. In 1950 he won the Prize for Foreign Artists at the XXV Venice Biennale and 16 years later, in 1966, he was awarded the National Arts Prize, awarded by the Government of Mexico.
Founding Academician since April 30, 1968.
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