Federico Cantu nace el Domingo 3 de Marzo de 1907 Cadereyta de Jiménez NL
Fourteenth death anniversary in January 2013
Federico Cantu born on Sunday March 3 1907 NL Cadereyta Jimenez
And died on Sunday January 29, 1989 Mexico City
Federico Cantu was born in
Cadereyta Nuevo Leon , Mexico on March 3, 1907. As a young boy, he was interested in art,
and in 1922 became a student at the Open Air School of Painting in Coyoacan
under the tutelage of Alfredo Ramos Martinez.
At that
point in history, the Open Air School was intent on encouraging the production
of a uniquely Mexican art.
Unfortunately for the Open Air School, Cantu was
not destined to be an artist who created such work. By the age of 15, Cantu was
studying masters in European museums,Académie Colarossi
, primarily in France and Spain. He was a student in Jose
de Creeft’s sculpture studio and studied the great works of painters such as
Botticelli, Picasso, and El Greco. He then spent a few years in the United
States, splitting time between Los Angeles 1928-1929 and New York 1937-1941,
where he accomplished great gallery successes. It would be approximately 10
years before Cantu would return to his native Mexico.
In 1922, Federico was
taken on by Diego Rivera to assist on the Ministry of Education project. Cantu
mixed paint colors, traced cartoons onto the walls and painted occasional
simple passages within the mural. As a professional artist, Cantu went on to
paint many religious scenes, nudes, harlequins, portraits, and in his older
years, even tried his hand at sculpting. Federico Cantu died in Mexico City in
1989.
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