Adolfo Best Maugard

Adolfo Best Maugard, also known as Fito Best ( born June 11, 1891 in Mexico City; † August 25, 1964 in Athens ) was a Mexican artist and film director.

Biography

At a young age he made for Franz Boas detailed illustrations of pre-Hispanic archaeological finds from the Valley of Mexico. His artistic, he studied in Europe, where he has already met with Diego Rivera, who portrayed him in 1913. The oil painting is now in the Museo Nacional de Arte.

In 1914 he returned to Mexico, where he was actively involved in the emerging open-air painting schools. He grappled with the Mexican folk art and let incorporate new elements, by linking modern and rational style elements in his paintings. His paintings are often figurative cartoons.

Mid- 1919, he went to study in the United States and returned to the end of 1920 back again. From 1921 to 1924 he was Head of the Department of Art Education under the direction of José Vasconcelos, who was at that time Secretario de Educación Pública. His drawing method, also known as a "best method", started operation in 1922 entered the art education at all Mexican schools. During this time he also wrote several art history books.

His 1923 work out given " Manuales y Tratados: Metodo de dibujo: tradition, Resurgimiento y del arte mexicano evolucion " has been distributed to over 200,000 students. In 1931, he was with Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein's film adaptation of the unfinished film " ¡ Qué viva México! " Commissioned by the Mexican government with the assistant director, which he also impact on Russian cinema.

In 1932 he became a member of the Council of Fine Arts ( Consejo de Bellas Artes) and the Council for Cultural Affairs ( Consejo de Asuntos Culturales ) in Distrito Federal de México. He was also a member of the Society of Geography and Statistics ( Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística ) and the Mexican Association of Film Directors. In 1933 he was a representative of the Department of Fine Arts at the Council for primary education and from 1932 to 1935 in the marketing department of Lotería Nacional para la Beneficiencia Pública.

In 1933 he directed the film adaptation of the strip " Humanity " (Spanish for " humanity" ) and 1937 with his self-written to texts by Miguel Ruiz screenplay of the film " La Mancha de Sangre " ( " Blood Stain "), which in June 1943 was premiered. He was close friends with Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias and had links to writers 'and artists' groups in the United States.