Within this section we highlight some of the best Mexico has to offer in the way of artisans, writers, painters, ceramicists, cultural examples, sculptors and more. If you like what you see, contact the artists and let them know you saw it on MexConnect.
Article Series about the Arts in Mexico:
Museums, Exhibitions & Galleries of Mexico – General
- Cuernavaca’s Muros Museum: There’s Heart within These Walls
- Saltillo’s Museum of the Desert explores every aspect of desert life
- Touring Oaxaca’s Art Galleries
- Uncovering Tonalá’s History at the National Ceramic Museum
- Cancun’s Cultural Oasis: La Casa del Arte Popular Mexicano
- Alfredo Guati Rojo: Painting With Light – Museo Nacional de Acuarela
- The museums of Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque
Mexican Artists and Sculptors
In alphabetical order by paternal (first) last name
- Dr Atl and the Revolution in Mexican Art
- Evoking the Ancient Maya: Murals of Otoniel Baruck Sala
- Creating is Being: Raymundo Becerril Porras
- D.A.T.A. – An Artistic Evolution: Three Modern Muralists
- Gabriela Epstein: Color, Form and Energy (with Photo Gallery)
- Francisco Goitia (with Photo Gallery)
- Saturnino Herrán: A Bright Light Too Soon Extinguished (with Photo Gallery)
- Maria Izquierdo – Monumento Artístico de la Nación
- *Gallery of Images – Maria Izquierdo
- The Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City, D.F.
- Painting Poetry – Veronica Leiton
- A Million Meanings: The Art of Raúl López García
- Armando Lozano Ramírez, Master Sculptor and Jeweler
- Living Memories – Miguel Angel Martínez
- Modern Mexican Sculpture
- Rodolfo Morales
- Life Translated to Art: The Works of Mara Odette
- Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949)
- Mexican Muralists: The Big Three – Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
- Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo – Universal Artist from Colima (with Photo Gallery)
- Rebel Without A Pause: The Tempestuous Life of Diego Rivera
- Lorena Rodríguez: From the Personal to the Universal
- Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and the ‘Mexican School’
- Inner Reality: Ary Stillman in Cuernavaca
- Rufino Tamayo
- Nature’s Artist: Alan Vázquez
- Artist: Enrique Velázquez
- Javier Vásquez – The Jazz Painter of Mexico City
- Alfredo Zalce – The last, great revolutionary muralist.
- Javier Zaragoza
- Javier Zaragoza: Artist with a mission
Mexican Photographers
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902 – 2002) with Photo Gallery of Images
- Frozen Moments: The Photos of Ricardo Gómez Jiménez
- Pablo Ortiz Monasterio – Mexico City’s “apocalypse” has come and gone.
- Out of Mexico’s past: Photographs that speak volumes (Hugo Brehme and others)
- Jack Weatherington
- Labor of Love, The Photographs of Edna Vite
Mexican Artisans
- Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos
- Chapala’s Feria Maestros del Arte: Guardians of the Folk Art Tradition Chapala’s Feria Maestros del Arte: Guardians of the Folk Art Tradition (with Phhoto Gallery)
- José María Alejos Madrigal: Generations of Ceramic Creativity in San José de Gracia, Michoacán (with Photo Gallery)
- A family tradition in Michoacan: the pineapple pottery of Hilario Alejos Madrigal
- Jacobo Ángeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times – with Photo Gallery
- Amate Art of Mexico – (Where the Secular Meets the Sacred) – with Photo Gallery
- A Treasure in Our Own Backyard: The Degollado Brothers Create Pre-Hispanic Replicas
- Michoacan’s Master Craftspeople and their Arts
- Martín Ibarra Morales – Renowned Ceramicist and Master of Detail
- Casa Santiago: Rug Weavers of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca
- Family Roots: The Soteno Trees of Life
- Jorge Wilmot: The Interval Between Before and After
- Raúl Ybarra – Embryography of a Jeweler
Indigenous Art
- Wandering Warriors: The Tastoan Masks of Prudencio Guzmán
- Kupíha’ute-Itzpapalotl – The Obsidian Butterfly
- Alebrijes – In Loving Memory of Don Pedro
- Huichol: – Celestial Things, – Ceremonial Bowls, – Jaguar Heads, – Masks, – Yarn Paintings
Mexican Authors
- Mexico’s Graphic Novels and Historietas
- Pulp Fiction – The Historieta
- Carlos Fuentes
- Rebel, Internationalist, Establishmentarian: The Meandering Road of Carlos Fuentes
- Excerpts from Carlos Fuentes’ Prologue to: MEXICO: A HIGHER VISION
- José Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi
- Mexico’s Voltaire:José Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi
- Sor Juana De La Cruz
- Searching for Sor Juana – Mexican Poet
- Octavio Paz
- Nobel Winner and Noble Man: Octavio Paz
- Juan Rulfo
- The Few, The Proud. The Work of Juan Rulfo
- Agustin Yañez
- The Engaged Man: Agustin Yañez
- Mariano Azuela
- Mariano Azuela
Original Ficton by MexConnect Writers
Architecture and Design
- Mexico Style and Design – Series
- Urban Deconstruction
- The Houses of Luis Barragán
- Architecture of the Pacific Coast
- Architecture of the Hacienda
- Jesús García The Hero of Nacozari. Famous Mexicans on their Stamps.
- Frida Kahlo – A Tormented Soul on Display. Famous Mexicans on their Stamps.
Image Gallery
- Photo Strip 19 – Murals of Mexico
- Photo Strip 21 – The Architecture of Luis Barragán
- Photo Strip 29 – The Hacienda Architecture of Mexico
- Photo Strip 35 – The Coastal Architecture of Mexico
- Photo Strip 49 – Artesans & Artesania – San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Teotitlan del Valle
- Photo Strip 55 – The Art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
- Michael Calderwood – Photo Strip 123 – Mexico – A Higher Vision
- Photo Strip 56 – Frida Kahlo – Self Portraits
- Pablo Ortiz Monasterio – Photo Strip 45 – “La Ultima Cuidad” (“The Last City”)
- Manual Alvarez Bravo (1902 – 2002) Photographer – Photo Strip 173 – His Photographs
- Mexican Muralists: The Big Three – Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros – Photo Strip 176 – Gallery of Images
- Printmaking – From Revolution to Establishment – Photo Strip 179 – Prints
- A Painterly View of Mexican Food – Photo Strip 182 – A Feast for the Eye
Art Scenes, Classes, Retreats, Events
Film and Festivales
- The Festival Internacional Cervantino de Guanajuato
- Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
- Emilio Fernández, One of a Kind
- Mexico Matinee: The Country in Film
Published or Updated on: July 30, 2011
