1. Jorge Tovar Santana was born on 1 February 1922 and is a Mexican painter, sculptor, cartoonist and landscape artist.
10 Facts About Jorge Tovar
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Jorge Tovar was a contributor to the publication La Nueva Picardia Mexicana, a book by Armando Jimenez, documenting Mexican customs in over twenty-five illustrations.
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Jorge Tovar created comics called El nieto del Ahuizotle and El Nahual.
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Jorge Tovar has had numerous exhibitions of his work in Mexico, including in the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.
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Jorge Tovar worked as an art teacher in various primary and middle schools, as well as the Normal Rural de Xochiapulco de la Sierra teachers' college and the Academy of San Carlos, from which he has since retired.
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Jorge Tovar is an admirer of French artists Daumier and Gustave Courbet, as well as Van Gogh, but most of all of Diego Rivera, because of his role in the Mexican Muralism movement.
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Jorge Tovar's works are generally social commentary in one form or another, believing that all art is political.
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Jorge Tovar has stated that he never painted for sales but rather to state his thoughts on what is going on in Mexico, causing a number of Mexican galleries to reject his work.
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Jorge Tovar believes that those who find a style that sells and stick to his become "apathetic, indifferent" and "stop being faithful to themselves".
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Jorge Tovar is a defender of drawing and of traditional figurative depictions, and has spoken out for artists whose work are rejected by galleries because they do not fit with what is fashionable.