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Jose Luis Cuevas Large Etching, Mexican Art #2137800

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Jose Luis Cuevas Large Etching, Mexican Art #2137800
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Artist: Jose' Luis Cuevas

Title: Clase de Anatomia

Medium: Etching with Aquatint [Signed and Numbered in Pencil]

Edition: 50

Paper Size: 52" x 35"




JOSE LUIS CUEVAS Mexican (1933 - )




A master draftsman, Jose Luis Cuevas played a pivotal role in Latin America's drawing and printmaking renaissance of the sixties and seventies. He is also associated with Latin America's neofigurative movement, along with artists such as Fernando Botero and Antonio Segui. Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1933. By the age of fourteen, he had illustrated numerous periodicals and books and had had his first exhibition in Mexico City. In 1953 Cuevas published La cortina del nopal (The Cactus Curtain), an article condemning aspects of the Mexican Mural movement and advocating greater artistic freedom. This philosophy inspired the founding in 1960 of the group Nueva Presencia, which he joined for a brief time. It promoted individual expression and figurative art reflecting the contemporary human condition.



Cuevas' work was influenced by the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as by Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, degraded humanity and prostitutes were of particular thematic interest. Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints. Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1989</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:52</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:35</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Jose Luis Cuevas Large Etching, Mexican Art</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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