Luis Ortiz Monasterio
[1][2] In 1920, he spent a year at a teacher’s training course at the Escuela Normal para Maestros while studying drawing at night at the Academy of San Carlos.[2][3] In 1927, he participated in a workshop at the Escuela Libre de Escultura y Talla Directa founded by Guillermo Ruiz at the San Ildefonso College, which promoted sculpting Mexican themes and values into native rock.[2] In 1946 he participated in the International Sculpture Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which acquired a work called Cabeza de mujer (1945).[2][3] Posthumous tributes include one in 1992 at the OMR Gallery,[2] and a retrospective in 2011 at the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo.The first are monumental public works with historical themes, such as the Nezahualcoyotl Fountain in Chapultepec (1956) and the Plaza Cívica de la Unidad Indepedencia (1962).
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