and Sunday painter Henri Rousseau whose "primitive" technique is painstakingly precise. Picasso drew constantly from "primitive" African Sculpture and remarked at an exhibition of children’s drawings: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to draw like ...
In 1922 her parents enrolled her in the Preparatoria, a prestigious school. Fond of getting in to trouble she later joined a revolutionary gang and fell in love with the gang leader, Alejandro Gomez Arias. During this period she witnessed violent armed struggles as the Mexican Revolution continue...
From 1908 to 1914, Orozco studied at the Academy of Arts in Mexico City. He took part in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–17. Political repression forced him to live abroad, in the USA, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1927 to 1934. Orozco worked primarily in Mexico City and Guadalajara...
colleagues from a clothing company I worked for, and together designed retail stores from NYC to Santa Fe, almost 20 years ago, as they asked me to help them build a pop-up shop forTheUniversity of Arizona Museum of Art‘sHead to ToeGala Benefit.Numerous calls, drawings, and laughs...
It was not until 1915, in the middle of the Mexican Revolution, that a map of the Republic appeared for the first time as the central design on a Mexican postage stamp. Most states were named, though abbreviations were necessary given the size of the stamp. In 1915, though, the state ...
The artist also did numerous lithographs and drawings. WORKSComo se pinta un mural. Mexico City, 1951.L’art et la revolution. Paris, 1973. REFERENCESZhadova, L. Monumental’naia zhivopis’ Meksiki. Moscow, 1965.Polevoi V. Iskusstvo stran Latinskoi Ameriki. Moscow, 1967.David Sikeiros....
He passed them to my mother in the mid-1970s, and I remember opening the box that held them and being both mystified and captivated by the drawings. I had heard bits and pieces about my great-aunt, including that she had artistic ambitions. No one had really taken those ambitions ...
Surviving drawings (Figure 1) from this period show anti-war and anti-fascist sentiments. Skeletal, cadaverous, and grotesque figures, some wearing soldiers’ helmets and some with swastikas, exude existential angst. The artist, taking his cue about socialist politics from the Mexican mural ...
Born April 25, 1941 – Stella Nemeth, age 80. Book reviews and occasional drawings inThe Diversifier,Lan’s Lantern,SF Booklog,Zeor Forum; seen inAlgol. More recently inArt With a Needle. [JH] Born April 25, 1957 – Deborah Chester, age 64. Three dozen novels for us (some under differ...
Zoltan used that training to help prepare the preliminary drawings for the newest fire station on Union Avenue. There is no other job when Campbell had a fire department he didn't do, reserve firefighter, mechanic's assistant working on fire trucks and police cars and explorer scout volunteer...