Julio Castellanos

Julio Castellanos (born October 3, 1905 in Mexico City , † July 16, 1947 there ) was a Mexican painter and graphic artist .

Life

Castellanos attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City from 1918 . His teachers there were Saturnino Herrán and Leandro Izaguirre , and his classmates included Agustín Lazo , Rufino Tamayo and Leopoldo Méndez . After that he went for a short time in the United States around the graphic arts to learn and met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano , who influenced him in his work. Back in Mexico he participated in the local Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre (open-air painting school) and learned from Adolfo Best Maugardits drawing techniques. In 1925 he gave his first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires and in 1925 went to Paris to study European art. Back in Mexico, he joined a group of poets and dramaturges at the Teatro Ulises , founded by Antonieta Rivas Mercado , and exhibited six of his paintings, which were fundamentally different from his earlier paintings , at an exhibition at Los Contemporáneos . At the Escuela Melchor Ocampo in Coyoacán , built by Juan O'Gorman , his first two and at the same time the only completed murals were created in 1933 . A year later he was commissioned to paint a mural at a school in Colonia Peralvillo called El ojo enfermo ( The Injured Eye ). In 1946 he was awarded together with Frida Kahlo by the Secretaría de Educación Pública . In the same year his wife Zita Basich Leija gave birth to his son Antonio , who is now a well-known sculptor.

In addition to solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Paris and New York City, Castellanos took part in several group exhibitions in Mexico and the United States. He died in 1947, the year he was appointed head of the Department of Fine and Fine Arts.

Works (selection)

• La cirugía casera (1934)
• El baño de san Juan (1939)
• Self-portrait (1947)
• El día de San Juan
• El Bohío Maya

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julio Castellanos (1905-1947) (English), Artfact, LLC.
2. ↑ Julio Castellanos ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), Museo Andrés Blaisten.  
3. ↑ Julio Castellanos, born Mexico City, 1905 (English), Questia Media America, Inc.
4. ↑ Julio Castellanos  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Asociación Cultural El Estanquillo AC, p. 42.