24 Facts About Xavier Guerrero

Xavier Guerrero was one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism movement in the early 20th century.

Xavier Guerrero was introduced to painting through working with his father, who worked in masonry and decorating.

Xavier Guerrero was born in 1896 with the name Javier Guerrero Saucedo Francisco, using the variant "Xavier Guerrero" as his professional name.

Xavier Guerrero was born in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila to Toalul Guerrero and Marion Saucedo.

Xavier Guerrero's father was a bricklayer, painter and decorator, often finding work at haciendas.

Xavier Guerrero learned to mix and create paint as well as make cement and mortar.

Xavier Guerrero became a lifelong supporter of socialist and communist politics.

Xavier Guerrero founded the El Machete, a publication of the Mexican Communist Party along with David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1924 and the two founded the Sindicato de Obreros Tecnicos, Pintores y Escultores union.

Xavier Guerrero died in Mexico City on June 29,1974, at age 77 and was buried at the Panteon Jardin.

Xavier Guerrero is one of the most important artists from the state of Coahuila, but he is relatively unknown, even in his home state as he did not achieve the level of fame that a number of his contemporaries did.

Xavier Guerrero began to paint murals in Guadalajara, generally with biblical topics, rural landscapes, allegories, and decorative perimeters Xavier Guerrero created his first mural in 1912 on a building in Jalisco called the Palacio de las Vacas when he was only sixteen years old.

Xavier Guerrero worked with Roberto Montenegro at the former San Pedro y San Pablo monastery on the El arbol de la vida mural and the design of the stained glass windows El Jarabe Tapatio and La vendedora de pericos.

Xavier Guerrero designed the stained glass window with the seal of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in the same building with Jorge Enciso.

In 1921, Xavier Guerrero met Diego Rivera and became one of the artists to paint the San Ildefonso College building, then the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and the Anfiteatro Bolivar, mostly done in encaustics.

Xavier Guerrero assisted on works by Jose Clemente Orozco, Carlos Merida, Miguel Covarrubias and Adolfo Best Maugard.

Xavier Guerrero worked on the six pediments of the Parthenon building at the same time Rivera was painting the interior of the school's former chapel.

Xavier Guerrero did a twenty two panel mural at the old Director's House, which was demolished in the 1960s.

Xavier Guerrero painted the fresco panels called De Mexico a Chile on the lobby of the same building.

Xavier Guerrero painted murals at a residence in Guadalajara and at the Club de la Union de Mecanicos, but only fragments remain.

Xavier Guerrero was accepted as a member of the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana.

Xavier Guerrero had a large exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City in 1972.

Xavier Guerrero's most significant canvas work is a self-portrait from 1947 in which a blood-red color dominates.

Xavier Guerrero's work is considered to blur the distinction between fine art, folk art and handcrafts.

Xavier Guerrero's work has been described as pantheistic and mythical in that humans do not center, especially in his canvas work and elements of nature have anthropomorphic qualities.