Emilio Amero

Emilio Amero ( born May 25, 1901 in Ixtlahuaca, † April 12, 1976 in Norman ) was a Mexican painter, graphic artist and photographer in the United States was predominantly active and taught. He was among the first Mexican muralists after the end of the revolution.

Biography

Amero had Spanish and Indian ( Otomi ) roots. The family went in 1909 to Mexico City. He and Rufino Tamayo had been friends since childhood. He began his artistic training in 1911 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes ( ENBA ) and also took private lessons with a family friend named Antonio Gómez. After completing his art studies in 1917, he worked for a newspaper. In 1918, he wrote again ENBA and visited the open-air painting school in Coyoacán. In 1921 he exhibited a student at the National Autonomous University of México ( UNAM). Amero was a founding member of the Sindicato de Obreros, Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores ( SOTPE ). From 1923 to 1924 he collaborated with Jean Charlot and learned in supporting Orozco at his work at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City from this, the techniques of Muralesmalerei. In the Secretaría de Educación Pública, he assisted Diego Rivera on his mural, Carlos Mérida helped in the design of the associated children's library and even painted the mural at the city's main library. Then he dealt in Havana and New York City with lithographic techniques and worked part-time as an illustrator and painter for various magazines. In 1930 he returned to Mexico City, where he founded the ENBA a workshop for lithography. From 1934 to 1938 he was back in New York, where he taught in the school of Florence Cane at Rockefeller Center drawing and lithography, painted two murals in Bellevue Hospital, experimented with film and photography, and had in the Julian Levy Gallery 's first solo exhibition. One of the screenplays for him, wrote his friend Federico García Lorca. In 1940 he taught at the University of Washington and headed the art department of the Cornish College of the Arts. This was followed by exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Seattle Art Museum. During the 22 years as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, he founded one of the leading lithography workshops.