1. Guillermo Ceniceros was born on May 7,1939 and is a Mexican painter and muralist, best known for his mural work in Mexico City, as well as his figurative easel work.
27 Facts About Guillermo Ceniceros
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Guillermo Ceniceros began his mural painting career as an assistant to mural painters such as Federico Cantu, Luis Covarrubias and then David Alfaro Siqueiros who was a mentor and a key influence.
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Guillermo Ceniceros has had over 300 individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and the International stage.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's work has been recognized by the Mexican Ministry of Culture and several of its institutions.
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Guillermo Ceniceros has painted over 20 large scale Mural Paintings with some of the most notable being the large scale work for the Legislative Palace of San Lazaro as well as his murals in the Metro Subway System.
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Guillermo Ceniceros is a member of the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.
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Guillermo Ceniceros is married to the artist Esther Gonzalez and lives in his studio house in the Colonia Roma of Mexico City.
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Guillermo Ceniceros was born in a small village called El Salto, located in the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the Mexican state of Durango.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's father was a woodworker who made toys and furniture in his workshop.
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Guillermo Ceniceros considers this early training important as it taught him the importance of geometry, use of space and materials.
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Guillermo Ceniceros became Siqueiros' first assistant working on his last murals while at the same time working at night on his easel painting work.
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Thru the 70's and 80s Guillermo Ceniceros continued his work with an emphasis on exhibits and exchanges abroad and traveling to Eastern Europe, Cuba, China, Chile, Ecuador, Italy and the United States.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's focus on mural painting is renewed in the mid 80's thru his large scale work in the Metro Subway System with him working on major commissions consistently and into the new century.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's home is a frequent gathering place for writers, poets, painters, singers, actors and journalists.
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Guillermo Ceniceros has a strong interest in Spanish language literature.
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The late poet Luis Rius and Guillermo Ceniceros often discussed the parallels between painting and writing, with Guillermo Ceniceros expressing his goal of achieving visual poetry thru his work.
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Guillermo Ceniceros did his first mural while he was still in Monterrey, working on the La Ciudadela municipal library in the city.
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Guillermo Ceniceros then worked with the master on murals at the Museo Nacional de Historia at Chapultepec Castle, the former customs building in Santo Domingo and the site of the Asociacion Nacional de Actores.
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Guillermo Ceniceros has created over twenty large scale murals in public places.
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Guillermo Ceniceros painted a mural for the cultural center of his hometown of El Salto.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's work began to be shown regularly in 1969 with an exhibition that established him at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with shows eventually in various parts of Mexico as well as abroad in countries such as Cuba, Ecuador and Eastern Europe with over two hundred exhibitions as of 2003.
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Guillermo Ceniceros's recognitions include two awards, the National Painting Prize from the Secretaria de Educacion Publica in 1969 and the keys to the city of Durango as a distinguished visitor in 2008.
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Guillermo Ceniceros is a member of the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.
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Guillermo Ceniceros experimented with abstract art, but always went back to introducing human figures in his work.
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Guillermo Ceniceros is interested more in formal possibilities than in techniques.
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Guillermo Ceniceros believes that the ability to draw is the basis of art.
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Guillermo Ceniceros has created and invented many of the tools he works with.