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| | THE MEXICAN MUSEUM PRESENTS EXPOSICIóN JOSé LUIS CUEVAS: WORKS ON PAPER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Cuevas is a self-taught draftsman, engraver and sculptor, having taken only one course at Escuela de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura "La Esmeralda." In the mid 1940s, Cuevas was a controversial personality in Mexico because of his very public writings against the Mexican Government’s role as patron of the arts. |
 | | During the 1950s, Cuevas was very active in the "Generación de Ruptura" (Rupture Generation) that looked for an alternative to the Mexican mural painting school, which emphasized social content messages. |
 | | Unlike most Mexican artists, Cuevas does not find the subject matter for his art in Mexico’s artistic traditions, but draws inspiration from Europe, specifically the writings of Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Dickens; the graphic techniques of Durer, Rembrandt, Goya; and the drawing styles of Picasso and Matisse. |
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