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Luis Jiménez
Buffalo Hunt
1990

About the Item

crayon and graphite on paper, framed proposal for Denver Airport commission Luis Jimenez is recognized as one of America’s most important artists. At the height of Minimalism in the 1960s he chose to do something out of fashion, greatly contributing to the rise of Pop Art. His work examines the American Dream in Hispanic terms, poking fun at American symbols while at the same time celebrating the strength of the American character. Jimenez’s father was a signmaker who worked with neon and large-scale materials. Through his father Jimenez learned what symbols and colors attracted people and the many associations that could be made with those symbols. He drew inspiration from signage, Mexican wall calendar prints, cowboy imager, and low-rider truck decoration to comment on political and social events. Jimenez created sculptures and paintings of swirling dancers, roughneck cowboys in motion, working class, and western themes. Although his portrayal of such imagery exaggerated cultural stereotypes and used kitsch colors, the work reflects a detailed knowledge of Mexican and European artistic traditions. His knowledge of traditional methods as well as how to appeal to a diverse audience resulted in numerous successful public art pieces a the Smithsonian, El Paso’s San Jacinto Plaza, a California border crossing, main street in Fargo, and Denver International Airport. His work is also included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico, and Plains Art Museum.

Creator:
Luis Jiménez (1940-2007, American)
Creation Year:
1990
Dimensions:
Height: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)Width: 78 in (198.12 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Crayon,Graphite
Movement & Style:
Folk Art
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Phoenix, AZ
Reference Number:
Seller: 2014052811stDibs: LU137110414

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Luis Jiménez

Born in El Paso, Texas, he worked at his father's neon sign studio as a child, which prepared him to make public art. He studied art and architecture at the University of Texas in Austin and El Paso, earning a bachelor's degree in 1964. He moved to New York City in 1966 after completing his post-graduate work at Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, D.F. He became an accomplished artist and taught art at the University of Arizona and later the University of Houston. As a sculptor, Jiménez was known for his large polychromed fiberglass sculptures, often of Southwestern and Hispanic themes. His works were often controversial. They are eminently recognizable due to their themes, his original sculptural style, and the colorful, undulating surfaces the artist employed. The finish of his sculptures had more in common with commercial products than with conventional fine art sculptures. Man on Fire (1969) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2023 Jiménez was influenced by the murals of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. He was very much a contemporary artist whose roots were in pop art, as much as they were in both the modernism of the Mexican muralists and the regionalism of Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood. Heroic sculptures were Jiménez's forte, championing the common man in his work. By working in his father's shop on neon signs and sculptures, he was brought in contact with popular culture, which also included lowrider car culture. The brightly painted fiberglass bodywork, often accented with glitter, served as a particularly relevant artistic influence.[5] While he is best known as a sculptor, Jiménez also made remarkable color lithographs and color drawings in pencil, pastel, and oil stick. He made preparatory drawings for his sculptures, some of which were very large. Most of his sculptures were made of fiberglass, which were cast in a mold, after which they were painted with multiple layers of paint and coated with epoxy. One art expert has noted, "There was no surface on any Luis Jiménez sculpture that was ever any less than six different colors, each airbrushed separately adding a slightly different tone." Jiménez would also often use flake, that glittery quality often seen on lowrider cars, in his paint. In 1993, Jiménez was a recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts. In 1998 he received a Distinguished Alumni award from the University of Texas in recognition of his artwork.