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(Unknown Artist.
Abandoned Art House.)
“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't
illegal,
a city where everybody draw whatever
they liked.
Where every street was awash with a
million colours and little phrases.
Where standing at a bus stop was
never boring.
A city that felt like a party where
everyone was invited,
not just the estate agents and barons
of big business.
Imagine a city like that and stop
leaning against the wall - it's wet. ”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece |
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| The San Ildefonso College currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement. San Ildefonso began as a prestigious Jesuit boarding school, and after the Reform War, it gained educational prestige again as National Preparatory School. This school and the building closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994. The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, Diego Rivera and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City. [Wiki] Take the Virtual Tour! |
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The Portal Keeper / El Guardian del Portal by Israel Alcala
Alebrijes (Spanish
pronunciation: [aleˈβɾixes]) are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures
of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term,
originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures
while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier
mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and
later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Linares was originally from México City (DF), he was born June 29, 1906 in
México City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then
in the 1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant
demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jiménez and a textil artisan
Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history
of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time,
when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the
alebrijes paper mache sculptures. [Wiki]
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
~George Bernard Shaw
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