Raúl Anguiano

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José Raúl Anguiano Valadez (born February 26, 1915 in Guadalajara , † January 13, 2006 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican mural painter .

biography

He studied painting from 1930 to 1934 at the Escuela Libre de Guadalajara and later wall painting in Mexico City . In 1937 he joined the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, LEAR) and worked on the wall paintings of the Centro Escolar de la Revolución (School Center of the Revolution). In the same year, together with Ángel Bracho , Leopoldo Méndez , Alberto Beltrán and other artists, he founded the Taller de Gráfica Popular (workshop of folk graphic artists , TGP). In 1938 and 1940 he organized exhibitions in Cuba on behalf of the Ministry of Education . In 1941 he studied at the Art Students League of New York . In 1948 he and other artists founded the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas (Society for the Impulse of Plastic Art). In 1949 he traveled with an expedition of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts) to the Lacandons and the ruins of the Mayan city of Bonampak in Chiapas . In 1951 he traveled to Cuba, then to Paris and then to England , Belgium , Germany , Italy and Spain . For a time Anguiano was teaching inspector for the Mexican Ministry of Education and drawing teacher at various schools in Mexico City. He has received numerous national and international awards for his works. He was a member of the Academia de Artes in Mexico City.

Works

  • Zapata
  • The women of Mexico
  • The Trip to Bonampak ( 1949 )

Web links

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 Gráfica Popular: Workshop for graphic folk art: posters and leaflets on the labor movement and trade unions in Mexico 1937–1986. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935656-10-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academia de Artes: Escultura - Raúl Anguiano ( Memento from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Anguiano, Raúl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anguiano Valadez, José Raúl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican wall painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Guadalajara
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2006
Place of death Mexico city