Coco jorge siqueiros biography

Biography

Jorge Cocco Santángelo (born in ) is a self-taught artist with international recognition, having his original works displayed in museums and art galleries in his native Argentina, France, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, and the United States, as well as being featured in United Kingdom&#;s Royal Mail special edition of Christmas stamps in   Currently, different institutions including Museums, Government buildings, Universities, and Churches of many denominations across the world showcase his works.  Jorge Cocco has mastered diverse art techniques  such as painting, sculpture, lithograph, etching, and ceramics. Painting is his preferred medium. He is also skilled in washi zokei, a Japanese technique to create art with handmade paper. In the last few years Jorge Cocco has been dedicated to paint in a new artistic style he created and calls &#;sacrocubism,&#; which portrays sacred and religious events in a style of painting with features of the post-cubist art movement.

Cocco was born in Concepción del Uruguay, in Entre Ríos, Argentina. He was attracted to art from his earliest memories. Cocco Santángelo&#;s mother says that as a young child, he would sleep with a pencil in his hand and by morning his bedding would be covered with pencil markings.

Jorge Cocco won his first citywide art award at the age of nine. In his early twenties he had gained State level prizes and recognition. Cocco Santángelo continued his art career in Buenos Aires and in he moved to Spain. Despite being a newcomer to Spain, Cocco rapidly integrated in the art community having art exhibits in Ibiza, Valencia, Bilbao, among other cities. Soon, museums started acquiring original Cocco&#;s for their own collections. While sojourning in his artistic path, Jorge Cocco continued learning and experimenting and traveled through Europe where he would spent countless hours observing the old masterpieces at the most important museums. In Cocco-Santángelo mo

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On Frida Kahlo’s birthday, discover how she and her fellow Mexican artists redefined their nation through their work

In May the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros published a manifesto in his magazine Vida Americana. Entitled A New Direction for the New Generation of American Painters and Sculptors, Siqueiros urged his countrymen to pioneer a novel kind of art. This new movement should honour the Mexican revolution that Siqueiros and his comrades had fought in, address the challenges of the machine age, and also draw on the rich, and until now overlooked indigenous heritage of Mesoamerica.

Siqueiros admired the pre-Columbian civilizations, but did not want to simply mimic this art in unthinking primitivism. He and his fellow painters, which included Frida Kahlo (born on this day, 6 July, in ), Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, were familiar with the major movements within the European avant-garde, but they also admired the earlier masters of the Italian Renaissance.

If they were to formulate a new style of art for their chimeric nation – where European and Native American blood flowed in many of its citizen’s veins – then they would have to reflect this nation.

Their movement, which we now call the Mexican Renaissance, was as much an attempt to form a nation as reflect one. The country’s revolution had split Mexico’s body politic into a number of rival factions. A new national cultures would have to be fostered if a cohesive country was to emerge.

Siqueiros and co were aided by the country’s newly appointed Secretary of Education José Vasconcelos, who implemented a programme of state-sponsored art patronage in an attempt to stimulate national cohesion in the country. 

“A highly didactic technique of murals was especially favoured, and Vasconcelos appealed to artists such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco an