Rodolfo Nieto
Rodolfo Nieto Labastida (July 13, 1936 in Oaxaca – June 24, 1985 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter of the Oaxacan School (apprenticed under Diego Rivera, later served him as an assistant).After his disappearance, the family became destitute; his mother, Josefina Labastida de Nieto, a homemaker and seamstress, moved to Mexico City with Rodolfo, his younger brother Carlos Nieto, a poet—who was later murdered due to his political associations—after Rodolfo died, formed a new family with half brother Ignacio Saucedo.[2] In Paris away from his indigenous environment, Nieto began to re-think folk art from his native Oaxaca mainly focusing on the brightly painted hand-carved wooden animals known as alebrijes.Nieto wrote: “To Burne Hogarth I dedicate, in memory of the Tarzan stories of my childhood, the series of animals I drew while I was in Switzerland, likewise the xylographs I created in Munich and Paris.”[3] Mentally Nieto took apart the structural aspect of the alebrijes and reconstructed them with the whimsy and wonderment of the Tarzan stories.This resulted not only in the Bestiario series of drawing and wood block prints, but established a style of painting that is now incorporated into the Oaxacan School.[2] Fernando Gamboa stated that noise and melody, the human figure and graphic line, expression and invention, reality and fiction are all interwoven in Nieto's canvases: he was part of the Generación de la Ruptura and has been related to the School of Oaxaca, with works based on the myths and legends of the state.While his time in Europe was important for the development of his visual language, it remained based on the colors and images of his native state."[7] According to Octavio Paz, "The interesting thing about him was seeking, restlessness, lack of satisfaction he felt with what he did, which is a symptom of undoubted talent.
Oaxaca, OaxacaMexico City"La Esmeralda"Nancy Glenn-NietoBiennale de ParisOaxacaMexican painterDiego RiveraSantos BalmoriEscuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"Carlos Orozco RomeroJuan SorianoJulio CortázarAtelier 17Edvard MunchalebrijesBurne HogarthJorge Luis BorgesDavid Alfaro SiqueirosPolyforum Cultural Siqueirosskull artCalaverasMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de MonterreyOctavio PazIbero-American InstitutePrussian Cultural Heritage FoundationDiario Las AméricasFaculty of Arts and DesignRodolfo Aguirre TinocoAbraham ÁngelRamón Alva de la CanalCarlos Alvarado LangLuis Arenal BastarMargarita AzurdiaAlberto BeltránÁngel BrachoCelia CalderónJulio CastellanosJosé Chávez MoradoJosé Clemente OrozcoMinerva CuevasFrancisco DosamantesFrancisco Eppens HelgueraManuel FelguérezGabriel Fernández LedesmaDemián FloresArturo García BustosAlfredo Guati RojoGabriel GuerraMaría IzquierdoJazzamoartIrving KriesbergJorge MarínAdolfo MexiacLuis Ortiz MonasterioRoberto MontenegroNicolás Moreno (artist)Luis NishizawaGabriel OrozcoSandra PaniSergio PerazaMelchor PeredoAntonio PujolAlfredo Ramos MartínezAurora Reyes FloresAntonio M. RuízSebastián (sculptor)Luciano SpanoRufino TamayoShino WatabeAlfredo ZalceÁngel ZárragaGilberto Aceves NavarroTomás BatistaArnold BelkinRafael CoronelArturo Estrada HernándezPedro León ZapataMario Moreno ZazuetaKiyoto OtaFanny RabelArmando Romero (painter)Verónica Ruiz de VelascoDarío SuroNahum B. ZenilSalón de la Plástica MexicanaAurea AguilarIgnacio AguirreLourdes AlanizRosa María AlfonsecaJesús Álvarez AmayaLola Álvarez BravoManuel Álvarez BravoColette Álvarez UrbajtelRaúl AnguianoChappie AnguloLuis Y. AragónGustavo Arias MuruetaJavier ArévaloLuis ArenalGerardo Murillo ("Dr. Atl")Abelardo ÁvilaIgnacio AsúnsoloSilvia BarbescuSofía BassiFeliciano BéjarAngelina BeloffRoberto BerdecioHelen BickhamEnrique BostelmannRocío CaballeroGeles CabreraYolanda CabreraGloria Calero SierraSusana CamposFederico CanessiFederico CantúFrancisco Cárdenas MartínezAngélica CarrascoJulio Carrasco BretónLeonora CarringtonBeatriz CasoRosa CastilloFidencio CastilloCarmen CastillejaFernando Castro Pacheco