José Chávez Morado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican artist
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Place of Birth: Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico
About José Chávez Morado
- José Chávez Morado (4 January 1909 – 1 December 2002) was a Mexican artist who was associated with the Mexican muralism movement of the 20th century.
- His generation followed that of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
- Although Chávez Morado took classes in California and Mexico, he is considered to be mostly self-taught.
- He experimented with various materials, and was an early user of Italian mosaic in monumental works.
- His major works include murals at the Ciudad Universitaria, Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes and Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City as well as frescos at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, which took twelve years to paint.
- From the 1940s on, he also worked as a cultural promoter, establishing a number of cultural institutions especially in his home state of Guanajuato including the Museo de Arte Olga Costa - José Chávez Morado, named after himself and his wife, artist Olga Costa.
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