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Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa]; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican painter, [2] sculptor, and graphic artist.In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of Mexico's most important contemporary artists.
On 12 April 1966 (only seven days before his death), Solís performed the song "Perdóname mi vida" live on a TV Show, making notorious pain gestures during the performance. On 19 April 1966, Solís died at the age of 34 in Mexico City from complications due to gallbladder surgery. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City ...
In 1943, she was included in the Mexican Art Today exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Women Artists at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery in New York. [58] A portrait of Kahlo by Magda Pach, wife of Walter Pach, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1933) Kahlo gained more appreciation for her art in Mexico as well.
Juan Quezada Celado (born May 6, 1940; died December 1, 2022) was a Mexican potter known for the re-interpretation of Casas Grandes pottery known as Mata Ortiz pottery. Quezada is from a poor rural town in Chihuahua , who discovered and studied pre Hispanic pottery of the Mimbres and Casas Grandes cultures.
Between 1942 and 1944 Orozco painted for the Hospital de Jesús in Mexico City. Orozco's 1948 Juárez Reborn huge portrait-mural was one of his last works. [2] In 1947, he illustrated the book The Pearl, by John Steinbeck. While still residing in Mexico City, Orozco died in his sleep on September 7, 1949, aged 65. The cause of his death was ...
José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker.Cuevas was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism movement as a prominent member of the Generación de la Ruptura (English: Breakaway Generation).
Lola Beltran at the Olympia (Paris), 1979 Beltrán's grave with wrong birthdate at Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in El Rosario, Sinaloa. On March 24, 1996, soon after recording Disco del Siglo (English: Album of the Century) with Lucha Villa and Amalia Mendoza "La Tariácuri" and produced by Juan Gabriel, Beltrán died of a pulmonary embolism [5] at Hospital Ángeles in Mexico City.