Arturo García Bustos

Arturo García Bustos in the Palacio de Bellas Artes

Arturo García Bustos (born August 8, 1926 in Mexico City ; † April 7, 2017 there ) was a Mexican artist .

biography

From 1941 he studied at the La Esmeralda Art Academy . His teachers were Agustín Lazo , Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo and Feliciano Peña . He also attended evening courses at the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Together with Guillermo Monroy and Arturo Estrada he founded the Artistas Jóvenes Revolucionarios (Young Revolutionary Artists) association. In 1945 he joined the Taller de Grafica Popular (Workshop of Folk Graphic Artists, TGP). Together with Frida Kahlo and other artists from the Los Fridos group, he painted the mural “Pulquería Posada del Sol”. In 1947 García Bustos received the first prize from the UNAM. In the 1950s he worked on the total of 6000 m² of wall paintings in the Ciudad Universitaria , which have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007 . From 1953 to 1954 García Bustos stayed in Guatemala . In the following years he traveled to Warsaw , Moscow and Korea . In 1959 he traveled to Cuba . In 1967 he left the Taller de Grafica Popular. García Bustos has received numerous national and international awards. From 1973 he was a member of the Academia de Artes .

García Bustos died at the age of 90 on April 7, 2017 in Mexico City.

Works

• Niños Héroes

literature

• Prignitz, Helga: TGP. A graphic artist collective in Mexico from 1937–1977. Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-922005-12-8
• Prignitz-Poda, Helga: Taller de Grafica Popular. Folk graphic art workshop. Posters and leaflets on the labor movement and trade unions in Mexico 1937–1986. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935656-10-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Arturo García Bustos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf Stadler et al. a .: Lexicon of Art 5th Gal - Mr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , p. 11.
2. ↑ Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Entry of the central campus of UNAM on the UNESCO World Heritage List. UNESCO , accessed March 17, 2014 . 
3. ^ Academia de Artes: Escultura - Arturo García Bustos
4. ↑ El INBA lamenta el fallecimiento del pintor Arturo García Bustos. In: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA): Boletín No. 461 of April 7, 2017. Accessed on April 12, 2017 (Spanish).