부산대학교 도서관

(b Montoro, Córdoba, 1910; d 1985). Spanish painter and teacher, active in Mexico. A political exile from the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 he settled in Mexico where he was to become important not only as a painter but also as a teacher. His work was pervaded by the shattering experience of exile. Despite this, he was quick to assimilate his new surroundings and almost immediately published a series of drawings, Dance of the Concheros (1939, Mexico City, Colegio México), inspired by a dance from San Miguel de Allende. He also worked with David Alfaro Siqueiros on the murals (1939) from the Sindicato de Electricistas at their union building, Mexico City. After a brief stay in the USA on a Guggenheim Foundation grant (1941–1943), he returned to Mexico and worked on his Exodus series of paintings (1943–1950s), the subject of which, like his later painting Masquerades for a Tyrant (1963...