Madonna and Child was painted by one of the most influential artists of the late 13th and early 14th century, Duccio di Buoninsegna. This iconic image of the Madonna and Child, seen throughout the history of western art, holds significant value in terms of stylistic innovations of religious subject matter that would continue to evolve for centuries.
martes, 20 de diciembre de 2022
martes, 13 de diciembre de 2022
Federico Cantú 1907-1989 Mexican Artist
Born in 1907 in Cadereyta de Jimenez, Nuevo León, Federico Cantú was a prodigious talent who with barely fourteen years of age began his artistic career. In 1922 he enrolled at Alfredo Ramos Martínez, a newly established experimental school in Coyoacán, Mexico City. There he learned from his teacher's impressionistic techniques and before long he began working as an assistant to Diego Rivera, who newly arrived from Europe and was about to unleash an extravagant mural project that would change Mexico City and propel the careers of numerous artists.
Mexican philanthropist
and intellectual Raúl Rangel Frías eloquently described Federico Cantu's colors as full of
lyrical emotions, his luminous reds and greens create and add substance to the immaterial assets of the painting. Indeed, he believed the artist had a magic touch that enable him to endow his pigments with life. More importantly, he considered Cantu's way of painting, even as a young artist, full of energy as the delicate lines of his compositions conveyed rhythmic design.
However, Cantú did not stay long in Mexico City and sailed for Paris in 1924 where he lived a bohemian lifestyle for almost a decade. Almost immediately after his arrival, he found himself amid all the avant-garde luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, Mateo Hernández, José Decrefft , Lino Eneas Spilimbergo, Gino Severini , Tsugouharu Foujita, the surrealists André Breton, Paul Eluard, José Moreno Villa, Cesar Vallejo, Antonion Artaud (who lived in Mexico in Cantu's house in 1936) and others.
While living in Paris, Cantú goes to California to have his first big art exhibition where his Madonnas and Virgins were displayed. The devotion to the sacred art is a constant theme in his work since his days at Escuela al Aire Libre de Coyoacán, increasing gradually until 1928 when Cantú painted his first mural in Pasadena in which he included the figure of the "Cristo Negro".
In the manner of Botticelli, Cantú portrayed the Madonna, as well as the "Descanso en la Huida a Egipto", where the Virgin and the Child are the central figures. The series of ink drawings in Cantú's sketchbooks also narrate a lot of biblical themes where, in the young artist's mind, woman represent a duality, which in one hand represents a symbol of fertility and in the other a symbol of eroticism.
Federico Cantú said on his return to Paris in 1930: "I found that my atelier had been leased and the works were sold to the highest bidder. I must have lost thousands of paintings including drawings, sculptures, sketches and oils".
At that time Federico did not imagine that although he arrived back in Paris with the idea of completing the ten-year cycle he had begun in 1924, his work would be soon once more lost because, as told by Antonin Artaud in his 1936 visit to Mexico, France was faced by the uncertainty of another war.
When Cantu returned to Mexico, he had extraordinary art exhibitions together with Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco and Doctor Atl. Soon after he painted the Le Papillon.
The portable mural "Life, passion and death of the harlequin" (Papillon Bar, 1934), reflects the bohemian spirit of Montparnasse. The figure of the harlequin accompanied by female nudes, was a result of the immense inspiration Cantú acquired from his time in Paris.
A year later Cantu starts a long exhibition career in California at the Stendahl Galleries where Picasso's "Guernica" was also displayed at the same time.
Throughout his life, Federico was attracted to the world of mythology, as demonstrated by two of his earliest paintings: Ícaro (1926) and Orféo (1926).
Cantú, as a tireless engraver and sculptor, recreates scenes and characters taken from the Greco-Roman and Mesoamerican mythology, describing myths and narrating religious stories while including Catholic iconography.
Federico Cantú carries on the religious theme by painting years later the "Purísima Church in Monterrey", the "Parish Church of San Miguel de Allende", the "Former Convent of San Diego" and the "Capilla de los Misioneros de Guadalupe" in Mexico City, and of course in the Collection of Paintings located in the Vatican Museums.
Cantú's work also shows a series of mythological figures such as Ulysses, Apollo, Diana, Nestor, Cassandra, Eurydice, the Minotaur, Penelope, and mythical creatures like centaurs, unicorns, fauns and muses.
With the fusion of narrative and history, Federico Cantú becomes a grand master of artistic engravings. The plates, delicately worked from an ink drawing with astonishing freehand strokes, constitute the extraordinary testimony of a life dedicated to art, engraved for eternity on plates of copper, zinc, gold, silver, steel and stone.
Adolfo Cantú
Mexico City, December 2022
Cantú Y de Teresa Collection
domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2022
Federico Cantú 1907-1989
El archivo documental de una artista es sumamente importante parte
medular como la obra misma, pues trabajan paralelamente en la catalogación e interpretación de la misma.
La documentación en esta imagen y por supuesto la interpretación!
Por ejemplo Cantú nos deja unas anotaciones , y se trata de una expo en California en 1937 en Stendahl Gallery , una galeria relativamente pequeña en tamaño pero sumamente grande el la historia del arte en el siglo XX , pues este recinto y mostro tambien por primera vez en America el Guernica de Picasso – antes de que reposara durante décadas en el MOMA de NY.
Tambien vemos la publicación de 1940 Who is Who in America , que presenta a todos los mas notables Artistas que radican en Los Estados Unidos – incluyendo a Federico.
Tambien en esta composición vemos el que se considera el primer retrato o mas antiguo – La Prima Elena 1922 – en la época de la Escuela al aire libre de Coyoacán
Y del otro lado La mona Casandra de 1932 –atelier de Paris y la “ Famouse Lesbian” una obra de la transición Mexico NY.
Bo
sábado, 9 de julio de 2022
MUSEO MURAL DIEGO RIVERA ROSTROS Y RETRATOS EXPRESIONES EN VOLÚMEN
Monumento a la Madre
CYDT Collection
Luis Ortiz Monasterio (August 23, 1906 in Mexico City – February 16, 1990 in Mexico City) was a Mexican sculptor noted for his monumental works such as the Monumento a la Madre and the Nezahualcoyotl Fountain in Chapultepec Park. His work was recognized in 1967 with the Premio Nacional de Artes and was a founding member of the Academia de Artes.
Luis Ortiz Monasterio (full name Luis Ortiz Monasterio del Campillo) was born in Mexico City, losing his father the year he was born.
In 1920, he spent a year at a teacher’s training course at the Escuela Normal para Maestros while studying drawing at night at the Academy of San Carlos. He later registered as a matriculated student, specializing in engraving, drawing and sculpture.
Because of the family’s economic situation, he went to Los Angeles, where he worked and studied, coming into contact with the works of Auguste Rodin, Brâncuși and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. In 1927, he participated in a workshop at the Escuela Libre de Escultura y Talla Directa founded by Guillermo Ruiz at the San Ildefonso College, which promoted sculpting Mexican themes and values into native rock.
For the next several years, he lived in the United States and Mexico, before permanently settling in Mexico City. In addition to art, he was an author of books and monographs, which generally contained philosophic and poetic references.
Ortiz Monasterio retired from his sculpting career in 1989, dying a year later at the age of 83 in Mexico City from multiple natural causes. His body was cremated at the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City
With a career that spanned over sixty years, Ortiz Monasterio is one of the main figures of Mexican sculpture in the 20th century. He is one of few to be active during the dominance of the Mexican muralism movement and one of fewer of the century to be remembered.
The artist began his career in 1927 as a drawing teacher at the Escuela de Maestros Contructores of the Secretaría de Educación Pública, after returned from studies in the United States. He went on to be a long-time teacher of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas ENAP from 1939 to 1962 and taught at La Esmeralda as well
His success in United States brought him back to Mexico, receiving commissions for monumental works.
the Monumento a la Madre in Parque Sullivan (1948) the Nezahualcoyotl Fountain in Chapultepec Park, the pórtico for the open air theater of the Plaza Cívica of the Unidad Independencia house complex and the Tigres y Águilas sculpture at the Centro Medico Nacional of IMSS(1963). He also created sculptures for cities such as Xalapa and Acapulco.
The first award for his work was a prize in sculpture from the Secretaría de Educación Pública in 1946. In 1967 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes in sculpture. In 1968 he was a founding member of the Academia de Artes and later received a diploma and medal for his teaching career at ENAP.[Posthumous tributes include one in 1992 at the OMR Gallery, and a retrospective in 2009 Museo de Linares And 2011 at the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo.
El Museo Mural Diego Rivera del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes albergará la exposición Rostros y retratos: expresiones en volumen, curada por María Estela Duarte, la cual podrá ser visitada del 6 de abril al 7 de agosto
Con un marco temporal que abarca desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, la muestra reúne más de 120 esculturas de 70 autores, entre quienes se encuentran 46 artistas nacionales.
Bo
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viernes, 8 de julio de 2022
A 100 años del Muralismo
Federico Cantú 1907 – 1989
“Los antiguos mexicanos”, dice Antonin Artaud, “no conocían otra actitud que ese ir y venir de la muerte a la vida”.
Son Raza-Principio considerada por el poeta como superior a la del hombre de occidente.
Cantú perteneció a la generación de artistas que formaron en la primera mitad del siglo la Escuela Mexicana de Pintura XX. Nació en Cadereyta de Jiménez , Nuevo León, el 3 de marzo de 1907 fue hijo de dos escritores , Adolfo Cantu Jáuregui y Luisa Garza -Loreley , de ahí su inclinación a el arte universal.
En su temprana juventud radico junto con su madre “Loreley” en San Antonio Texas, posteriormente ya en México ingresó en 1922 a la Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre de Coyoacán, fundada por Alfredo Ramos Martínez: Maestro y amigo que inculco en Cantú el gusto por el color y el trazo en pequeño formato , así como la pasión por el romanticismo .
Como diria Alfonso Reyes : Cantú “surgió hijo de si mismo” Su obra aviva el afán prehispanico,la flora, la fauna, el paisaje y la simbología mitológica y religiosa. Pero sobre todo recrea el universo cultural que cultivo a lo largo de su vida.
Con una produccion basta en grafica , pintura de caballete pintura mural y escultura
La definicion del estilo que lega Federico es tan compleja como su iconogtafia , podrimaos derrochar tinta escribierndo y narrando cada una de sus obras , sin poder al fina, determinar la magnitud del caudal cretivo del “Ulises de Cadereyta”
Desde los peregrinos del mayflower, su Crito negro en Pasadena California, la maestra rural en NY, los angeles musicos en Boston , la alegaria a la primavera
Una Diosa de la Fortuna dotada de iamgenes consmograficas , una tira de peregrinacion que requiere de la interpretacion del codice mendocino , o los informates de Sahagun que nos remontan a las primeras reiterpretaciones de la cultura mesoamericana , Nezahualcoyotl y el agua, Caida de Troya , Las enseñanzas de Quetzalcoatl. El viacrusis o la narrativa de los cuatro evangelistas , Los cuatro Jinetes del apocalipsis! La peregrinacion de los Teotlecos , El origen de la informatica , Ceres , Xilonen , la Luna Coyolsaqui
Federico va abordando cada uno de sus murales de manera magistral
Con tan solo 21 años el joven artista ya habia plasmado sus primeras ideas en la monumnetalidad de una iglesia en Pasadena California
Tan solo un examen mas para bordar el tema del cristo muerto! De pronto el crak del 29 y uan serie de exposciones en Nueva York le marcan una nueva ruta y para 1930 regresa a Paris para termnar el siclo que marca uan decada de trabajo deedicado a la ciudad luz
Ya en 1934 Federico toma el criterio adquirido y aborda en el Bar Papillon la obra de carater monumentla “ Vida Y pasion de Arlequin “
Viene un lapso de casi una decada dedicado de lleno a la pintura de caballete.
Ya entrado en los años caurente , trabaja en el quinteto de Angeles musicos , en Boston , los murales de la residencia Yglesias con motivos de mexicaniada y los murales de la parroquia de San Miguel Allende.
Surgen nuevos murales en residencias de particulares abordano los temas mas diversos
Colección de Arte Cantú Y de Teresa
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Caída de Tenochtitlan
Federico es uno de los mas grandes muralistas de la Escuela Mexicana , su obra monumental esta dotada de historia , iconografía y sobre todo de una narrativa muy personal.
Nació en Cadereyta de Jiménez , Nuevo León, el 3 de marzo de 1907 fue hijo de dos escritores , Adolfo Cantu Jáuregui y Luisa Garza -Loreley , de ahí su inclinación a el arte universal.
Como bien decía; impulsado por su maestra de primaria en los Estados Unidos sus primeras obras fueron murales que imagino y creo en los pizarrones de la escuela, ya a los 14 años y bajo la academia de la Escuela al aire libre de Coyoacán inicia una incansable carrara artística que lo lleva a vivir en Paris , durante este periodo de mas de 10 años , se cultiva en los menesteres del arte monumental en la academia Colarossi y la Grand Chomier
Su obra temprana ya comprende murales sacros, profanos r histricos
En 1950 desarrolla la obra que hoy nos compete “ La caída de Tenochtitlan “
Una narrativa que incluye diferentes escenas la caída de la gran Tenochtitlan
Mostrando la trama darmatica de cómo los guerreros aztecas mantiene una lucha feroz contra el ejercito español que los supera en armamento y poderío , una lucha frente a frente mostrando la lucha por sobrevivir ,
Caída de Tenochtitlan Mural de 2;20 x 8.00 metros
Murales Residencia Benito Coquet
Ahora en el Museo de Historia de Nuevo León
Federico Cantú Garza 1907-1989
Texto. CantuArt Por Adolfo Cantú
Cantú realiza esta poderosa obra monumental integrando en ella; Historia, drama y
paisaje; Notable interpretación de lo que fue la caída del imperio Azteca.
El Artista muestra como la naturaleza que se encontraba cubierta de verdor flora y fauna
gracias a Xochipilli y su compañera Xochiquétzal de repente se trasformara en un paisaje desolador.
A lo lejos, observamos la grandeza del “Templo Mayor” que de nota el avance arquitectónicologrado por el pueblo Azteca entre 1499-1500 y como elemento de balance central de la obra Cantú utiliza el paisaje del Valle de México donde el Popocatépetl y el Iztaccíhuatl dan fe de la caída del imperio.
En lo alto esta quetzalcotl , repreentado como un gran caballero aguila surgido de Malianlco y guiando al pueblo Azteca a comfrortarce con valentia , no obstante la inferioridad en maquinaria de Guerra , exortando a el publo a defender su legado.
Para entender esta batalla, recordemos como a consecuencia de las hostilidades contra los Españoles que Cuitláhuac organizara en 1520 , se dará paso al reagrupamiento Español que culminara con la Caída del Ultimo de los Tlatoani; Cuauhtémoc, que al defender la ciudad el 13 de Agosto de 1521 será capturado y con ello vendrá el rendimiento del pueblo Azteca.
En la parte inferior de la obra esta Sahagún, acompañado de sus informantes, obra que será reinterpretada posteriormente por el artista en la obra mural que pintara en la Pinacoteca Virreinal y transformada ( una década despues) en bajo relieve para la Universidad de Nuevo León.
Yo creo- Dice Cantú- que Sahagún es el padre de la mexicanidad. El se transformo en un inmenso receptáculo de la cultura prehispánica. Mucho de lo que sabemos sobre los antiguos moradores, a él lo debemos. Sahagún rescató tradiciones, reconstruyó la historia y acopió información en todos los campos de nuestra basta cultura.
Sahagún fue un conductor, nunca un destructor: como Cortés, o Nuño de Guzmán que fue el más acabado de los canallas, Guzmán supero la maldad de Cortés y Alvarado.
En una de mis obras posteriores pinte a estos bribones en El Museo Regional de Morelia.
Hay un glifo indígena, que representa a Nuño de Guzmán, montado en un caballo grotesco y con un perol de víboras. Así veía el indio la conquista.
Por eso tomé esta fuente, para concebir a los Cuatro Jinetes de la Apocalipsis, cabalgando sobre el pueblo tarasco, guiados por Nuño de Guzmán. Por eso el León de Castilla, ondea en las banderas de infamia de los jinetes.
Adolfo Cantú
Colección Cantú Y de Teresa
miércoles, 13 de abril de 2022
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
Dentro de este contexto , la Coleccion de Arte Cantú Y de Teresa y El Museo casa Estudio Federico & Elsa presentan cuatro obras icónicas de la Escuela Mexicana de Escultura y talla directa que forman parte de dichos acervos
Ejemplo de ello es la maqueta en bronce de lo que alguna vez fuera el Monumento a la Madre de Luis Ortiz Monasterio y que desapareciera parcialmente a partir del temblor del 2017 , tambien y enriqueciendo esta visión de la mexicanidad se encuentra la firma monograma “ autorretrato como
escultor de Federico Cantú; escultura en bronce que muestra la firma del mural “enseñanzas de Quetzalcóatl” IMSS Centro Medico, mural que tambien sufriera daños en el temblor de 1995 , de ahí a que la importancia de dichas obras son el testimonio de una época de la monumentalidad en Mexico y sin duda Narran la maestria de estos dos coloso del arte nacional.
Adolfo Cantú
lunes, 7 de marzo de 2022
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