Julio Castellanos

Julio Castellanos ( born October 3, 1905 in Mexico City; † July 16, 1947 ) was a Mexican painter and printmaker.

Biography

Castellanos attended from 1918 in Mexico City, the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. His teachers were there Saturnino Herrán and Leandro Izaguirre to his classmates included Agustín Lazo, Rufino Tamayo and Leopoldo Méndez. After that he went for a short time in the United States around the graphic arts to learn and met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, who strongly influenced him in his work. Back in Mexico, he participated in the local Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre ( Open-air painting school ) and learned at Adolfo Best Maugard whose drawing techniques. In 1925 he was in Buenos Aires his first solo exhibition and went to Paris in 1925 to deal with European art. Back in Mexico, he joined a group of poets and playwrights at the Teatro Ulises at that Antonieta Rivas Mercado was founded by, and presented at an exhibition of Los Contemporáneos six of his images that fundamentally differed from his early pictures. At the built by Juan O'Gorman Melchor Ocampo Escuela in Coyoacán in 1933 incurred his first two and at the same time the only completed murals. A year later he was commissioned a mural at a school in the Colonia Peralvillo that ( the injured eye ) bore the name El ojo enfermo. In 1946 he was honored along with Frida Kahlo by the Secretaría de Educación Pública. In the same year his wife Zita Basich Leija gave birth to his son Antonio, who is a well-known sculptor today.

In addition to solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Paris and New York City, Castellanos took part in several group exhibitions in Mexico and the United States. He died in 1947, when he received the post as head of the Department of Visual and Fine Arts in the year.

Famous Works (selection)

• La cirugía casera (1934 )
• El baño de san Juan ( 1939)
• Self Portrait ( 1947)
• El día de San Juan
• El Bohío Maya