42 Paintings by Artist Jesus Guerrero Galvan | 20th-century Mexican Muralisist | ArtLiveAndBeauty

 

Jesus Guerrero Galvan's Paintings

Mexican artist Jesus Guerrero Galvan was part in the early 20th-century Mexican Muralism movement. born into a low-income peasant family in the state of Jalisco. He had a gift for sketching at a young age, and his family encouraged him much. He studied sketching in Guadalajara when he was younger. The family was struggling financially, and his health suffered as a result of the fight to survive. He developed TB and did not fully recover. Guerrero Galvan traveled to the US with his mother and sister just before turning fifteen. There he worked at a supermarket kiosk and used bits of charcoal to draw on the pavements. After impressing a few consumers one day with his art, he was given the chance to attend the National School of Plastic Arts in San Antonio, Texas. After returning to Mexico, he enrolled in the Guadalajara workshop of academic painter José Vizcarra, where he excelled in painting methods. Paintings of colonial structures and nudists, as well as copies of Raphael and Gerardo Murillo reproductions, were assignments given by Vizcarra to his students. This had an impact on his later work because he was always a fan of the Renaissance masters. Admired Picasso's work, Mexican muralism's nationalism, 19th-century Mexican portraiture, and Mesoamerican culture and art. He came onto the Bohemian Circle in Guadalajara, which existed before the Mexican muralist movement. joined an artistic group at the University of Guadalajara. The group started off producing impressionist art before transforming into what they dubbed "poetic neorealism" using cubism and abstract art from the European avant-garde as inspirations. Like many other painters of the era drawn to muralism, Galván relocated to Mexico City in the early 1930s in order to advance his career.