Agustín Lazo Adalid Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Agustín Lazo Adalid Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Agustín Lazo Adalid (1896 â€" January 28, 1971) was a Mexican artist

and playwright who is credited with introducing surrealism to Mexico.

Although he grew up during the era of the Mexican Revolution, his time

in Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, set his aesthetics towards the

avant-garde movements of that continent, rather than towards Mexican

muralism, making him a part of the Los Contemporáneos or “Grupo sin

grupo.†His work in art and theater influenced each other, with his

art having theatrical themes and his theater having emphasis on sets

and visual cues. Lazo retired from art in 1950, after the death of his

long-time partner poet Xavier Villaurrutia, supposedly never painting

or writing again.Agustín Lazo was born in Mexico City in 1896[1] to a

wealthy and well-known family.[2] He did not have economic concerns

like many other artists so he could choose what he wanted to study,

write, design and paint.[2]After studying architecture for a year, he

dedicated himself to painting.[3] He began his art studies at the

Escuela al Aire Libre de Pintura in Santa Anita, founded by Alfredo

Ramos Martínez in 1913[1][4] In 1917, he briefly attended the Escuela

Nacional de Bellas Artes, along with Rufino Tamayo, Julio Castellanos

and Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, studying under Saturnino Herrán

.[4][5]He began his art career after the Mexican Revolution with

Adolfo Best Maugard but then left for Europe living for a while in

Paris in 1922.[2][6] He visited Europe again in 1925 then lived there

from 1927 to 1931.[7] He spent his time in Europe traveling in France,

Italy, Belgium and Germany, visiting museums and the studios of

various avant-garde artists meeting artists such as Max Ernst and

Giorgio de Chirico .[4][8] He spent most of his time in Paris, which

then was a magnet for international artists of various types, which

introduced him to surrealism. He lived and worked as an artist in the

city, sharing a studio with Alfonso Michel in Montparnasse .[7] At

this time, he also became interested in theater, learning set design

and stage machinery with Charles Dullin of Théâtre de l'Atelier. He

also began living with his longtime partner poet Xavier Villaurrutia

.[2]
Agustín Lazo Adalid Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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