Luis Arenal Bastar

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Luis Arenal Bastar

Luis Arenal Bastar (* 1908 or 1909 in Teapa / Tabasco or Mexico City ; † May 7, 1985 in Mexico City) was a Mexican artist and a representative of muralism .

biography

In addition to his sister Angélica , who later became the wife of David Alfaro Siqueiros , Luis Arenal had a brother named Leopoldo . From 1927 to 1928 he studied law and sculpture in Mexico City and in 1929 went to the University of Arizona . In 1930 he started painting. Together with other well-known artists of this era, he painted the mural “La America Tropical” at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles in 1932 . Arenal was the first secretary of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and in 1937 a founding member of the Taller de Grafica Popular . Together with Alfaro Siqueiros he also painted the murals “Retrato de la Burguesia” and “La Marcha de la Humanidad” and in 1944 created two sculptures for Alfaro Siqueiros mural called “Cuauhtémoc contra el Mito”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth vary depending on the source.
  2. ↑ from Labor's Fight Against Inflation ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 4.62 MB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceip.org.ar
  3. ↑ Luis Arenal (English), Graphic Witness.
  4. ↑ El Grabado Mexicano del Siglo XX ( Memento of November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Spanish-language chronology on the development of Mexican graphic art.
personal data
SURNAME Arenal Bastar, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1908 or 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Teapa , Tabasco State
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1985
Place of death Mexico city