Gabriel Fernández Ledesma – Bestiario- En la Colección de Arte Cantú Y de Teresa
miércoles, 31 de agosto de 2016
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Gabriel Fernández Ledesma – Bestiary
Gabriel Fernández Ledesma
(May 30, 1900 - August 26, 1983) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist, writer and teacher. He began his career
working with artist Roberto Montenegro then moved into publishing
and education. His work was recognized with two Guggenheim Fellowships, the José
Guadalupe Posada medal and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Even before he went to art school, he and friend
Francisco Díaz de León founded a group called the Círculo
de Artistas Independentes in Aguascalientes in 1915, a forum through which they
organized exhibitions.
In 1917, he received a scholarship from the state
government of Aguascalientes to attend the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National
School of Fine Arts) in Mexico City. There he studied under Leandro Izaguierre,
Carlos Lazo and Saturnino Herran. To earn money to live on as a student, he
worked as a calligrapher’s assistant and then by tracing agricultural property
plans at the Archivo General de la Nación.
Fernández Ledesma married Isabel Villaseñor, an icon of Mexico's postrevolutionary period. They had one
daughter, Olinca.
His relationship with art education began in 1925, as a
drawing teacher with the Secretaría de Educación Pública
and, then in 1926 at the Centro de Arte Popular. After rejecting the director’s
position at one of the Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre, Fernández
Ledesma, his brothers and Guillermo Ruiz decided to create the Escuela de
Escultura y Talla Directo a school for sculpture and carving. The school
challenged the idea of art for art’s sake, focusing on handcrafts and popular
art, and teaching workers and children. In 1928, he was one of the founding
member of the "¡30-30!" movement along with Fernando
Leal and Ramón Alva de Canal. This group was noted for its hostility
to academia, trying to change how art students were taught, and its conviction
that art should have a social purpose above all else.
Fernández Ledesma also organized exhibition
of Mexican art abroad. In 1929, he was sent to Spain, in charge of an
exhibition of work from students at the Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre and
the Centro de Arte Popular to the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville .In 1940, he and Miguel Covarrubias prepared an
exhibition called 20 Centuries of Mexican Art which was shown in New York. He
was a founding member of Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios
(League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists) in 1934 and with the support of
the Ministry of Public Education, exhibited his colleagues´work in Paris in 1938 under the title Artdans la vie politique
mexicaine (Art in the Political Life in Mexico).
Recognitions for his work include a 1942 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for non-fiction. and
another in 1969. In 1975, he received the José
Guadalupe Posada medal in Aguascalientes, and in 1982, the Palacio de Bellas
Artes held a retrospective of his work called Artista y promotor cultural.
Gabriel Fernández Ledesma.He was also accepted as a member of the Salón de
la Plástica
Mexicana
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