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1934 Mexico City, Mexico - 2017 Mexico City, Mexico. Known for: Neo-figurative ink drawing, surrealist portraiture, sculpture.
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. He began drawing at an early... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. He began drawing at an early age. While convalescing from a serious boyhood illness he became a voracious reader. At the age of ten... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. He began drawing at an early age. While convalescing from a serious boyhood illness he became a voracious reader. At the age of ten he enrolled as an irregular student at the School of Painting and Sculpture, 'La Esmeralda' in Mexico City. He began exhibiting in the early 1950s and is regarded as one of the foremost... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. He began drawing at an early age. While convalescing from a serious boyhood illness he became a voracious reader. At the age of ten he enrolled as an irregular student at the School of Painting and Sculpture, 'La Esmeralda' in Mexico City. He began exhibiting in the early 1950s and is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of the neo-figurative movement that emerged in Latin America from the late 1950s onwards. Cuevas specialized in incisive satirical ink, wash and pencil drawings of grotesque creatures and degraded humanity, often including self-portraits in his... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. He began drawing at an early age. While convalescing from a serious boyhood illness he became a voracious reader. At the age of ten he enrolled as an irregular student at the School of Painting and Sculpture, 'La Esmeralda' in Mexico City. He began exhibiting in the early 1950s and is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of the neo-figurative movement that emerged in Latin America from the late 1950s onwards. Cuevas specialized in incisive satirical ink, wash and pencil drawings of grotesque creatures and degraded humanity, often including self-portraits in his compositions. Although he followed the tradition of Goya, his work was strongly flavored by 19th and 20th... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aquatint
- •Bronze
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Art School
- •Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Sao Paulo Bienniale