Juan O\' Gorman

Juan O' Gorman (Coyoacán, July 6th 1905 - January 17th 1982) is a painter and Mexican Architecte .

Biography

Juan O' Gorman is the son of a painter Irish, Cecil Crawford O' Gorman, and of a Mexican mother, Encarnación. He studies the Architecture between 1922 and 1927 at the School of architecture, then with the Academy San Carlos. Draftsman in an office of architects, it becomes architexte auxiliary in the workshop of Carlos Obregón Santacilia. He takes part in the rebuilding of the Bank of Mexico City.

Under the influence of Le Corbusier and its book Towards an architecture , it makes build with San Ángel the first functional house of Mexico. It builds in the same way a house-workshop for Diego Rivera, completed in 1932.

Painter, it is known for his mural Fresques carried out with the Tempera, in particular those of the castle of Chapultepec, which represent the great moments of the Indépendance of Mexico. Its frescos of 1938 for the airport of Mexico City, considered to be too subversive, were moved in 1939. In the Years 1950, it is in charge of decoration external of the central Library of the autonomous National university of Mexico. It recovers all the building, deprived of windows, of immense a mosaic coloured stone, which offers a summary of the Mexican culture, especially around civilization Aztèque and Conquête of Mexico.

Between 1953 and 1956, it builds a new house inspired of the ideal palate of the Facteur Horse, with Aztec ornaments (like Quetzalcoatl) and of the reasons for mosaic. Located at Pedregal of San Ángel, it was demolished in 1969.

In painting of rest, it carried out many Portrait S and Autoportrait S (including that of 1950), and very realistic landscapes, marked by its trade of architect, or quite as meticulous but fantastic, inspired by works of Jerome Bosch and the Surréaliste S.

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