Art Classes In The Lake Chapala Region, Jalisco, Mexico
Lake Chapala/Ajijic Area
This is an incomplete list of classes in this area and will be added to as we discover more.
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Jose Clemente Orozco (1863 - 1949)
La pasión de Orozco por el arte se manifestó cuando, a los siete años, se mudó con su familia a Ciudad de México, donde pudo conocer el trabajo de Posadas. Después de estudiar agricultura y arqui...
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David Alfaro Siqueiros ( 1896 - 1974 )
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974).
Fue el muralista más activo, en cuanto a la política se refiere. Siqueiros fue encarcelado unas siete veces y otras exiliado, a causa de sus creencias Marx...
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Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
Habiendo estudiado arte en una escuela oficial, Rivera viajó a Europa, estableciendose en París, donde conoció a las principales figuras de la época, incluyendo a m...
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Artstuff - Ancient American Goddess Art by Juan Compo
Ancient American Goddess images by Juan Compo, in paintings, murals, wall hangings, posters and fabrics, are now in private collections in the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico.
Juan Compo is the name chosen ...
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Georg Rauch: Artist in Mexico gallery
Born in Austria, Rauch survived the horrors of WWII and began painting seriously in Vienna in 1949. Strongly influenced by his fellow Viennese painters Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, h...
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Diego Rivera's monumental stairway mural in Mexico's National Palace, Mexico City, D.F. (1)
The center arch of the wall contains the Mexican eagle holding a serpent that showed the end of the Aztecs' migration. Included on the current Mexican flag, the eagle also represents a resurgent Mexico...
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Gabriela Epstein: Color, Form and Energy
Epstein spent eleven years on a Chiapas coffee plantation. Its fertile landscape seeped into her subconscious and left an indelible impression.
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Arte plumaria: the feather art of Martha López Luna
The 52-year-old artisan and married mother of three sons only began working in arte plumaria in 1999, but she has already earned an impressive reputation for herself. A book featuring her work titled Mi Collar, Mi Pequeña Pluma (My Necklace, My Little Feather) contains photos of her images endowed with a calamitous beauty . . .
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Javier Zaragoza: Artist with a mission
Anahuacalli: Diego Rivera's gift of indigenous treasures
Legendary Mexican artist and master muralist Diego Rivera spent so much time avidly collecting pre-Hispanic art it's a wonder he ever got around to painting. Rivera amassed a collection of thousands of...
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Purepecha fiesta In Ajijic, Jalisco
They may not have conquered Ajijic in the old days, but the Purepecha never gave up. They didn’t even ever surrender to the mighty Aztecs. Now, they are seeking to take Ajijic by artistic stealth, beginning next month when a special Purepecha Fiesta is to be held in Ajijic plaza. The Fiesta begins on October 12, “Dia de La Raza” (literally "Day of our Race"), a national holiday observing the survival and resistance of the indigenous Mexican.
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Within this section we highlight some of the best Mexico has to offer in the way of artesans, writers, painters, ceramicists, cultural examples, sculptors and more. If you like what you see, contact the artists and let them know you saw it on MexConnect.
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José Luis Cuevas (b. 1933)
One of Mexico's foremost printmakers, Cuevas stands apart. His imagery is more in tune with the literary traditions of the Spanish language--without being illustration--than obedient to the reco...
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Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991)
An artist who needs no introduction. Tamayo shares the limelight together with Diego Rivera as Mexico's greatest painters of the twentieth century. But Tamayo, like Rivera, was also a prolific and de...
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Leonora Carrington (b. England, 1917)
The legendary English born surrealist painter is internationally recognized for her unique imagery. However, this nonagenarian has yet to be recognized for her profound influence on the younger generat...
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Raul Anguiano (1915-2005)
Photo by Bob Schalkwijk
His visual roots firmly planted in the graphic essence that marked the early part of this century, Anguiano's traditional figurative imagery has grown to embrace vivid colo...
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Alfredo Castañeda (b. 1938)
Castañeda is renowned for his "inspirationalist" allegories that feature his own bearded "alter ego". He renders his images with "Old Master" pictorial quality. An optimistic spirituality radi...
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Alejandro Colunga (b. 1948)
This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexican forms, themes and motifs, and then corrupts them, so to speak, by bombarding them with foreign elements. Colunga re...
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Francisco Corzas (1936 - 1983)
Corzas' imagery is of literary origin. Erudition rendered through virtuoso inarticulation. Cynosure yet restless, his imagery casts a benumbing yet a clarifying effect upon our perception. Ever-present...
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Maximino Javier (b. 1950)
A veteran of the "Oaxacan School" that is rapidly receiving worldwide recognition, Javier has developed his own personal and unmistakable iconography. Movement is a principle and continuous force that...
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Minerva López (b. 1934)
Minerva balances multiple fields of geometric designs, rectangular spirals, parallel zigzags and represents indoor-outdoor dwellings on her primary design field. Within these major areas Minerva...
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Mario Martín del Campo (b. 1945)
Another Tapatío artist (from Guadalajara), Martín del Campo is a major exponent of Magic Realism. A prolific and versatile artist whose media span the gamut from painting to silver casting, Ma...
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Lucía Maya (b. USA, 1953)
Lucía Maya is Mexico's graphic artist par excellence. The pencil is her prime creative tool. Limiting herself only to the lithographic grease pencil, this Tapatía artist syncopates the sweeping ran...
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Armando Morales (b. 1927)
The internationally renown Nicaraguan-born painter is a world master whose work continuously grows. His intricate technical achievements have led to worlds of imagery never before trespassed. Morales delved into the secrets of the lithographic stone with no less audacity, determination and understanding than he puts into oil painting.
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