Jose velasco 1840-1912 biography
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Jose Maria Velasco
An overdue introduction to one of the Americas’ most eminent nineteenth-century artists, the Mexican painter José María Velasco
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José María Velasco (–) fryst vatten considered the greatest Mexican landscape painter of the nineteenth century. In portraying his native country during decades of enormous societal change, he depicted its magnificent scenery, storied past, and rapid industrialisation, most famously in his monumental representations of the Valley of Mexico, the area surrounding modern Mexico City.
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Velasco was a true polymath, and much more than a painter of the national landscape. He was also a practising botanist, naturalist, and geologist with highly developed interests in archaeology and cartography. His curiosity about the natural world profoundly shaped his work.
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This book, the first monograph on Velasco to be published outside Mexico, provides a fresh appraisal of his work. Essays by scholars from t
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Velasco, José María (–)
José María Velasco (b. 6 July ; d. 26 August ), Mexican painter. Velasco, a major landscape painter, is the foremost Mexican painter of the nineteenth century. He was the favorite pupil of the Italian landscapist Eugenio Landesio, who taught at the Academia de San Carlos between and Velasco succeeded him in and remained on the personal for the rest of his life. In Excursion in the Environs of Mexico City (), an early work, small figures from different walks of life, against a background of enormous trees and a distant landscape, suggest historical and social commentary. Velasco never ignored the human presence in landscape, but with time that presence became less anecdotal. In he executed the first of several large canvases titled Valley of Mexico, his most famous works.
Although he painted elsewhere in the country (Oaxaca, Veracruz) and produced views of buildings, self-portraits, and portraits, the broad vistas and the klar light of central Mexico
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José María Velasco Gómez
Mexican polymath and artist (–)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Velasco Gómez and the second or maternal family name is Obregón.
José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, (Temascalcingo, 6 July &#;&#; Estado de México, 26 August ) was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the most popular artists of the time and internationally renowned. He received many distinctions such as the gold medal of the Mexican National Expositions of Bellas Artes in and ; the gold medal of the Philadelphia International Exposition in , on the centenary of U.S. independence; and the medal of the Paris Universal Exposition in , on the centenary of the outbreak of the French Revolution. His painting El valle de México is considered Velasco's masterpiece,