Mauricio Toussaint (b. 1960 in Guadalajara, Mexico) is a famous Mexican modern artist. Of French and Mexican fall, Toussaint was involved in making art from a young age. Following his parents’ prospect to make a living, he enters the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara to get a degree in structural design (he graduated during 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree). During this time, he was confident by a professor from the near Visual Arts Department to make art on his own. Invited to work at the open class at the Centro de Arte Moderno, he made prints during 1982-83 and afterward, he board on a series of paintings. By the mid 1980s, he had fake relations with art experts from the center, and was soon asked to team up as a helper curator at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas—his career in architecture formally replaced with art.
In 1995 Toussaint came to the United States, tempted by friends in the music business, which confident him to join them in Miami. He has had numerous exhibits in dissimilar Mexican cities over and above other countries like Spain, France, Korea and the United Sates.
Francisco Benjamin Lopez Toledo (b. 17th July 1940, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México) was the most vital living Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Institutor National de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he deliberate graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria. Graficas de Oaxaca (IAGO).
His social and artistic concerns about his home state led to his contribution in the organization of an significant art library at the IAGO, and his participation in the beginning of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneous de Oaxaca (MACO), the Patronato Pro-Defensa y Conservacion del Patrimonio Cultural de Oaxaca, a records for the blind, a photographic center, and the Eduardo Mata Music Library to name a little of his projects. Toledo’s exceptional originality has been spoken in pottery, sculpture, weaving, graphic arts, and paintings. He has had exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden, the United States, plus other countries. Toledo is at the same time an outstanding artist and a supporter and guardian of the arts and the crafts and architectural inheritance of his state of Oaxaca.
Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a famous Mexican painter. He was a Zapotec Native American and was born in the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
In his paintings, Tamayo uttered what he actually believed was the traditional Mexico and did not follow the more politically based paintings, which many of his contemporaries such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Oswaldo Guayasamin and as well as David Alfaro Siqueiros did. Tamayo and one more artist, Lea Remba, were the first artists to make a new type of printed artwork called “mixografía”. This consisted of artwork printed on paper but with vigor and texture. One of their most well-known mixografías is free Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros (”Two Characters Attacked by Dogs”).
Tamayo also painted murals, some of which – counting Nacimiento de la nacionalidad (”Birth of the Nationality”), 1952 – are exhibited inside Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes opera house. His art has also been exposed in U.S. museums such as The Phillips Collection in Washington and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, in the year 1974 at Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a renowned painter and muralist recognized for his social realism work.
His prominent projects include his shared mural at the Mexican Electricians’ Union (1939-40), From Porfiriato to the Revolution at the Museum of National History (1957-55), March of Humanity and the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros at Avenida Insurgentes (1965-71), and his had a main role in obtaining mural commissions for artists on the University City campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico during 1950s Mexico City.
Siqueiros was one of few famous Mexican muralists working at the time, including Diego Rivera, José Clement Orozco and Rufino Tamayo. His art honestly reflected the time period in which he actually grown as an artist. His art was intensely rooted in the Mexican Revolution, an aggressive and chaotic period in Mexican history in which different social and political factions fought for credit and power. The period during 1920s to the 1950s is recognized as the Mexican Renaissance, and Siqueiros was active in the effort to make an art that was at once Mexican and universal.
Siqueiros was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize for the year in 1966. His nephew is filmmaker David Siqueiros.
Veronica Ruiz de Velasco (born in México D.F.) is an extraordinary painter of Mexican origin living in the USA. She was a follower of Teodulo Romulo, Rufino Tamayo, Jean Dubuffet, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro.
In 1985, Ruiz de Velasco held a display at the Gallery of the Loteria National of Mexico. In 1986 she had an individual display in the Gallery of the Benito Juarez International Airport at Mexico City. In 1987 she was the youngest artist to display at the Museo de Arte Moderno (national Museum of Modern Art) in Mexico. The exhibition was homage to Andrew Lloyd Weber and had amazing reference pieces such as Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Starlight Express, and as well the Phantom of the Opera. The Museo de Arte Moderno published their twenty five year celebration book and with Ruiz de Velasco as one of Mexico’s leading artists.
In 1989, Ruiz de Velasco painted a wall painting in the American British Cowdray Medical Center in Mexico D.F… This mural took approximately a year to complete. The investiture of the mural was a nationwide event in Mexico, exposed by the U.S. Ambassador in Mexico, Charles Pilliod. Prince Charles of Wales was as well present and congratulated Ruiz de Velasco on the donation of her time and effort.
In 1996, Ruiz de Velasco created a portrait for President Bill Clinton. President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a letter of approval for this portrait