José Luis Cuevas Art

A musician holds a double pipe before a burnt orange background. He is dressed in a flowing thick orange robe and a large black hat. Music Is a Higher Revelation than Philosophy Jos...

Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) Title: Rasputin the Crime Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 25/100 Size: 22 x 30 in. (5...

"Four Animals" is an original color lithograph by Jose Luis Cuevas. It depicts four abstracted, surreal animals in red-orange. 18 3/4" x 25 5/8" art 27 5/8" x 20 1/2" frame A master draftsman, Jose Luis Cuevas played a pivotal role in Latin America's drawing and printmaking renaissance of the sixties and seventies. He is also associated with Latin America's neofigurative movement, along with artists such as Fernando Botero and Antonio Segui. Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1933 or 34. By the age of fourteen, he had illustrated numerous periodicals and books and had had his first exhibition in Mexico City. In 1953 Cuevas published La cortina del nopal (The Cactus Curtain), an article condemning aspects of the Mexican Mural movement and advocating greater artistic freedom. This philosophy inspired the founding in 1960 of the group Nueva Presencia, which he joined for a brief time. It promoted individual expression and figurative art reflecting the contemporary human condition. Cuevas' work was influenced by the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as by Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, degraded humanity and prostitutes were of particular thematic interest. Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints. Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate. It is for this reason that he often distorts and transforms the human figure to the point of uniqueness. Cuevas has had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world including the University of Texas, Austin, 1961, the San Francisco Museum of Art, California,1970, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1972, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, 1974, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1975, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1976. His work was included in Four Masters of Line: Jose Luis Cuevas, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Morris Graves, Musee de la Napoule, France, 1957 and in The Emergent Decade, Cornell University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965. Among his many awards are First International Prize for Drawing, Biennial of Sao Paulo, 1959, First Prize, International Black and White Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland, 1962, First International Prize for Printmaking, Triennial of Graphic Arts, New Delhi, India, 1968, First Prize, III Latin American Print...

Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) Title: L'amour Fou from the Crime Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 25/100 Size: 22 x 3...

Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) Title: Van Gogh's Criminal Obsession Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 25/100 Size: 22 x 30 in. ...