About Raul Anguiano

Raul Anguiano

(1915 – 2006)
Painter, muralist and engraver born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. In his teens, he began his training at the Guadalajara Open Air School, where together with other artists he organized the group of Young Jalisco Painters. Two years later he arrived in Mexico City and in 1934 he joined the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists. He was a founding member of the Taller de la Gráfica Popular in 1938, which was created as a collective work center, where he mainly made engravings and lithographs with the basic idea of solidarity with workers and peasants. The same year, he presented his first solo exhibition at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 1941, he went to the United States where he studied and taught painting. He was the founder of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and a teacher at the School of Plastic Arts of the Autonomous University of Mexico. He began his work as a muralist with the fresco called Socialist Education at the Carlos A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. His mural work belongs to the second generation of muralists, along with González Camrena, Juan O’Gorman, and others. Anguiano’s language spread to other areas of modern Mexican art. He died on January 13, 2006, in Mexico City.