Muralists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Pinuccio Sciola, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Rainer Maria Latzke, Samuel Bookatz, Rafael López, Daniel Maclise, Abraham Lishinsky, Gyula Kosice, Rigo 23, Constantino Brumidi, Aurelio Grisanty, Roberto González Goyri, Carlo Carrà, John Frederick Brill, Serge Toussaint, Walldog, Josep Maria Sert, Lucienne Bloch, Graham Rust, Jan Vermeiren, Andrea Appiani, Delmas Howe, Aasutosh Panigrahi, Botong Francisco, Jane Golden, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Óscar Quiñones. Excerpt: Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906-1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, illustrations and woodcarvings. Martínez attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Ruth VanSickle Ford. In 1933, he was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts for his mural at the "Century of Progress" International Exhibition in Chicago. During these years in Chicago, he produced various illustrations for Esquire Magazine and participated in the Federal Art Project. Martínez was a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, where he began to experiment with the Art Deco style. In Colombia, Martínez was awarded the gold medal in the 1940 Salón de Artistas Colombianos and was again awarded the top prize in 1941. In 1947, Martinez Delgado painted the mural at the Salón Elíptico in the Colombian Congress Building, considered one of the greatest murals of the 20th century. Martínez was then awarded La Orden De Boyaca (Colombia's highest government honor). Martinez was at the top of the Latin-American fine-arts scene when he died at the age of 47. Martinez's ancestry profoundly influenced his art choices and books. Born into an aristocratic family in Bogotá, his father was the Conservative party leader Luis Martinez and his mother Mercedes Delgado Mallarino. It was a difficult childhood due to his father's expulsion from Colombia as a result of an indictment for his involvement in an earlier Coup d'état. Martinez began studying art by age 11 under the instruction of Colombian Master Roberto Pizano and following Andrés de Santa Maria at the Bogotá Fine Arts Academy. In 1925, he moved to Cartagena, where, at the age of 18, he directed and illustrated some sections for the newspaper "La Patria" under the pseudonym of "Sanmardel". Soon after, in 1926, Martínez traveled to Chicago, where he studied and worked for over five years at the Fin