Born in 1909, in Silao, Guanajuato, Jose Morado was instrumental in the muralist movement of the twentieth century. As a child his grandfather had a collection of over 5000 books which had been passed down through the family that provided Jose his first introduction to art and illustration. After immigrating to the US for a time, Morado returned to Mexico and began to practice his drawing, finally entering the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes to study art in earnest. Jose Morado was associated with a group to the political left, and joined the Mexican Communist Party. Perhaps his most prominent projects are his murals located at the Ciudad Universitaria. The one I have chosen to include here is La Conquista de la Energia, created in 1952. He was mourned at his death in 2002 as the last of the great Mexican muralists.
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