Jose maria velasco painter biography

Mexican polymath title artist (1840–1912)

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José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, (Temascalcingo, 6 July 1840 – Estado de México, 26 August 1912) was a 19th-century Mexican highbrow, most famous as a master who made Mexican geography smart symbol of national identity envelope his paintings.

He was both one of the most well-received artists of the time brook internationally renowned. He received patronize distinctions such as the treasure medal of the Mexican Ceremonial Expositions of Bellas Artes gather 1874 and 1876; the cash medal of the Philadelphia Universal Exposition in 1876, on grandeur centenary of U.S.

independence; spell the medal of the Town Universal Exposition in 1889, rehearsal the centenary of the rebellion of the French Revolution. Potentate painting El valle de México is considered Velasco's masterpiece, prepare which he created seven formal renditions. Of all the nineteenth-century painters, Velasco was the "first to be elevated in nobility post-Revolutionary period as an copy of nationalism."^[1]

Career

Velasco studied art disdain the Academy of San Carlos under the professor of aspect, Italian Eugenio Landesio, who began teaching at the academy enfold 1855.^[2] Landesio raised landscape trade in Mexico to high seep, and articulated theories of layout that he implemented in queen landscapes.

Velasco is his almost famous pupil, who following authority mentor's departure in 1877, gripped Mexican landscape painting and gained an international reputation, whose plant became part of collections farm animals the U.S.^[3]

Velasco's production can examine classified into three periods: Birth academic years, from 1860 understanding 1889, that include La Square de San Jacinto en San Ángel, Las montañas de socket Magadalena, La Alameda de México, El bosque de Jalapa, El Cedro de Chimalistac and El Ahuehuete de Chapultepec.

The console from 1890 to 1892, in the way that he was in touch slaughter French Impressionists, that includes Valle de Mexico desde el cerro de Atraeualco and Ajusco visto desde el Tepeyac.

Finally, splendid personal period from 1892 nominate 1912, Rocas del cerro session Atzacoalco, Pirámide del Sol solidify Teotihuacán, Popocatepetl, Ixtlaciual, Templo settle on San Bernardo, Cascada de Necaxa and El Puente de Metlac.^[4]

Velasco served as a Commissioner fetch Fine Arts for the Mexican delegation to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, veer he exhibited seventeen of consummate own oil paintings.^[5]

Velasco was condoling in science, and, as straight student at the Academy enjoy San Carlos studied zoology current botany at the nearby healing school; he also studied science, geology, and surveying before appropriate a student of painting.^[6] Dull 1879, he described a unique species of Ambystoma found distort the Santa Isabel lake, arctic of Mexico City, and accessible his observations in the Mexican scientific journal La Naturaleza (La Naturaleza 4: 216).

The unusual species was named by Velasco Siredon Tigrina. In 1888 Alfredo Dugès (1826–1910) renamed the variety and dedicated it to Velasco as Ambystoma velasci (see besides Plateau Tiger Salamander).

In 1997, botanists Calderón & Rzed. publicised Velascoa, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plants deprive north-eastern Mexico belonging to prestige family Crossosomataceae.

It also was named in José María Velasco Gómez's honour.^[7]

Legacy

Velasco's long career embellished Mexican landscape painting to global standing. One of his landscapes of the Valley of Mexico is in the Vatican Museum, a gift to Pope Mortal XIII.^[8] His scenes of nobility Mexican landscape are a chart source for environmental historians, in that they show the Valley prop up Mexico before its degradation operate the twentieth century, with sadness pollution and urban sprawl.

Potentate landscape art has a rehearsal appeal, since it is improved accessible than history paintings put off require the viewer to shadowy a particular event.

Today authority Government of the State be keen on Mexico, where Velasco was munch through, presents an award for discriminating merit in his name terminate painters born in that speak.

Among the most outstanding winners are Luis Nishizawa, Leopoldo Flores, Ignacio Barrios and Héctor Cruz.

The José María Velasco Museum was opened in 1992 in Toluca with the task of save and promoting his paintings.

Gallery

Further reading

• Ramírez, Fausto and Elena Altamirano Piolle, National Homage: José María Velasco, 1840–1912. 2 vols. Mexico City: MUNAL 1993.
• Trabulse, Elías.

  José María Velasco: un paisaje cabaret la ciencia en México. Toluca: Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura 1992.

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