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Jose Luis Cuevas

Jose Luis Cuevas (1934 - 2017) was active/lived in New York / Mexico.  Jose Cuevas is known for Neo-figurative ink drawing, surrealist portraiture, sculpture.

The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:

Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934.  He began drawing at an early age.  While convalescing from a serious boyhood illness he became a voracious reader.  At the age of ten he enrolled as an irregular student at the School of Painting and Sculpture,  'La Esmeralda'  in Mexico City.  He began exhibiting in the early 1950s and is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of the neo-figurative movement that emerged in Latin America from the late 1950s onwards.  Cuevas specialized in incisive satirical ink, wash and pencil drawings of grotesque creatures and degraded humanity, often including self-portraits in his compositions. Although he followed the tradition of Goya, his work was strongly flavored by 19th and 20th century literature, contemporary life and horror and detective films.

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