1. Hermenegildo Sosa was born on April 12,1946 and is a Mexican painter and art professor who is best known for colorful depictions of Mexican rural landscapes, especially those of his home state of Tlaxcala.
17 Facts About Hermenegildo Sosa
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Hermenegildo Sosa was born there into a farming family, whose economic condition delayed his education as he had to work from a young age.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's work has been recognized with various awards, publications, tributes and membership in the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.
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Hermenegildo Sosa comes from a family of farm workers, including his father Rafael Sosa, who was an ejido leader.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's mother was Cirenia Zamora, a homemaker, with Sosa being the twelfth of their fourteen children.
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Hermenegildo Sosa had to start working while very young, doing a number of jobs to support himself and his family.
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Hermenegildo Sosa began primary school at age twelve at the Centro Escolar Revolucion, but in his fourth year won a recital competition among primary schools in Mexico City.
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Hermenegildo Sosa went on to study middle school at the Maestra Guadalupe Nunez y Parra School in 1964, the same year he exhibited a series of watercolors he did at the school.
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The teacher of this class, Jose Rivera, arranged to allow Hermenegildo Sosa to attend an ENAP class as an unmatriculated student with Fermin Rojas, and Hermenegildo Sosa participated in an exhibition with the class.
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Hermenegildo Sosa learned various styles of drawing and painting, but his rural background in part led him to be interested in landscape painting.
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Hermenegildo Sosa had exhibited his work as a student in various collective shows, which his first two individual exhibitions coming in 1978.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's work has been recognized in a number of ways.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's work has been critiqued and written about by the likes of Ali Chumancero and Berta Taracena, and various books have been published such as El Color de la Vida presented at the Tlaxcala State Fair in 2007.
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Hermenegildo Sosa was accepted into the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana and in the early 2000s he served as the board's president.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's work has focused on painting with some drawing, with his best-known work being depictions of the nature of rural Mexico, especially that of his home state of Tlaxcala with intense colors and forms, with colors such as turquoise, violet and yellow.
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Hermenegildo Sosa has done still lifes, interior environments, including furniture and nude figures in some kind of setting.
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Hermenegildo Sosa's work is metamorphosis, movement, as much in the clouds and sky as in the field and earth, in the yellows of the flowers and the green that extends all the way to the horizon and joins with the sky that acquires the yellow tones of the Sun.