Mexican Painters

Villalpando, San Ignacio en Tierra Santa, 1710, Museo Nacional del Virreinato.

Painting is one of the most ancient arts in Mexico. It is said that the oldest paint in America was found in a cave in Baja California. Aztecs and Mayans, painted on the walls of their temples and tombs. In Mayan culture one may find interesting paintings in Bonampak frescoes. The Baroque style was developed also in New Spain in its Colonial era; although, it incorporated Indian decorative motifs. Religious paintings intended for churches and portraits of aristocrats were the current subject in this Colonial era. From the XVI to the XVIII Century, Mexican painting played an important didactic role. Different European Schools during XIX and XX Century, had influence in Mexican painters. The Mexican Modernist School (and muralists) abandoned the solemn and detached art of Europe and instead embraced bold New World imagery full of color and human activity. [1]

## Contents

* 1 Painters of New Spain
* 2 Painters of Mexico
* 3 Gallery
* 4 See also
* 5 External links

## Painters of New Spain[edit]

Miguel Cabrera, Virgen de la Luz

Some of the most important painters of the New Spain are:

* Simón Pereyns (Flemish)
* Sebastián López de Arteaga (Spanish)
* Baltasar de Echave Orio (Basque)
* Baltasar de Echave Ibía
* Baltasar Echave Rioja
* Luis Juárez
* Cristóbal de Villalpando
* José Juárez
* Juan Correa
* José de Ibarra
* Miguel Cabrera
* Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez
* José Luis Rodríguez Alconedo

## Painters of Mexico[edit]

Self-Portrait by Pelegrín Clavé.

Selfportrait by Juan Cordero.

Some of the most important Mexican painters are:

* Pelegrín Clavé (Catalan)
* Eugenio Landesio (Italian)
* Juan Cordero
* Santiago Rebull
* José Salomé Pina
* Hermenegildo Bustos
* José María Velasco
* Joaquin Clausell
* Germán Gedovius
* Dr. Atl
* Jose Clemente Orozco
* Diego Rivera
* Frida Kahlo
* David Alfaro Siqueiros
* Rufino Tamayo
* Remedios Varo
* Alfredo Zalce
* Juan O'Gorman
* Gunther Gerzso
* Jose Luis Cuevas
* José Chávez Morado
* Jorge Gonzalez Camarena
* Jesús Guerrero Galván
* Leonora Carrington
* Juan Soriano
* Pedro Coronel
* Rafael Coronel
* Francisco Toledo

Diego Rivera, 1949.

Joaquin Clausell, Marina

## Gallery[edit]

* La Pascua de Maria Juan Correa

* Los desposorios de José y Asenet Cristóbal de Villalpando

* Virgen María y Jesús con santos Miguel Cabrera

* La Virgen del Apocalipsis Miguel Cabrera

* Self-Portrait José Luis Rodríguez Alconedo

* Maximilian I and Carlota Santiago Rebull

* El interior del arca de Noé (detail) Joaquín Ramírez

* Mural de Hidalgo Jose Clemente Orozco

* Locomoción capilar Remedios Varo

* Presencia de America Latina Jorge Gonzalez Camarena.

* La Madre Tierra  Jesús Guerrero Galván

* Adiós mí general Leonora Carrington

* Retrato de Don Diego de Mesa con perro Juan Soriano

* Vacas y Toro Francisco Toledo

* Terraza Luz de Lourdes Pino

Valley of Mexico by José María Velasco.

## See also[edit]

Nuestra Imagen Actual by David Alfaro Siqueiros.

* Mexican Painting
* Mexican Painting Masterpieces
* Painting Schools
* Painting Masterpieces
* Mexico by World Painters

Chac, mayan codex.

## External links[edit]

Remedios Varo, Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River.

* Mexican Painters
* Mexican art
* Pintura Mexicana In Spanish.
* Mexican Artists and Sculptors
* Leonora Carrington. Art of the 20th Century.

Las Vírgenes Locas, José Chávez Morado.

Rufino Tamayo, La Gran Galaxia