1. Roberto Montenegro Nervo was a painter, muralist and illustrator, who was one of the first to be involved in the Mexican muralism movement after the Mexican Revolution.
24 Facts About Roberto Montenegro
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Roberto Montenegro Nervo was born on February 19,1885, in Guadalajara.
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Roberto Montenegro's parents were Colonel Ignacio L Montenegro and Maria Nervo, aunt of poet Amado Nervo.
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Roberto Montenegro's education began at a school for boys where he had his first experience with drawing.
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Roberto Montenegro arrived to Mexico City in 1903, sent by his father to study architecture.
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Roberto Montenegro's teachers included Leandro Izaguirre, German Gedovius and Alberto Fuster and his classmates were Diego Rivera, Angel Zarraga, Francisco Goitia and Saturnino Herran.
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Roberto Montenegro became familiar with Japanese art whose influence can be seen some of his illustrations for Revista Moderna.
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Roberto Montenegro was first in Madrid, studying at the Academy of San Fernando under engraver Ricardo Baroja.
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Roberto Montenegro became a fanatic of the Prado Museum studying the works of El Greco, Goya and Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta.
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Roberto Montenegro returned briefly to Mexico in 1910 but by 1913 he was back in Paris, for another six years, studying at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts and collaborating with Ruben Dario for a magazine called Revista Mundial.
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Roberto Montenegro kept a wide circle of friends that included writers, journalists, artists and politicians.
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Roberto Montenegro began while still living in Guadalajara at age sixteen sending vignettes and drawings for illustrations.
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Roberto Montenegro would continue to work with them after he arrived in Mexico City until 1911.
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Roberto Montenegro was an early participant in the budding Mexican muralism movement, recruited by Secretary of Education Jose Vasconcelos and returning to Mexico in 1921.
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Roberto Montenegro came back to it in 1931, finishing it in 1933.
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Roberto Montenegro painted Vasconcelos' private offices at the Secretaria de la Educacion Publica and the Hermeroteca of the Universidad Nacional.
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Roberto Montenegro's work did not have the dramatic flair of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, who would become the main three figures in the movement.
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Roberto Montenegro moved onto other projects but returned to doing some mural and building decoration work in the late career.
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Roberto Montenegro exhibited his work several times in Mallorca and in Madrid in 1918 and 1919.
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Roberto Montenegro did four self-portraits, one of which shows himself in a convex mirror.
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One of the projects that Roberto Montenegro did after his initial work with murals was the promotion of Mexican handcrafts and folk art, which he gained appreciation of while traveling Mexico.
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Roberto Montenegro became the head of the Departamento de Arte Popular of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1947.
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Roberto Montenegro was a painter, a printmaker, illustrator and included some work in theater and decoration.
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Roberto Montenegro claimed to be a "subrealist" rather than a Surrealist, and his paintings often mixed two fundaments elements, folklore and fantasy.