The painter and student of Frida Kahlo, Arturo Estrada Hernandez, was born on July 30, 1925. in Michoacan. Interested in art at an early age, Hernandez enrolled at La Esmeralda at age 17.
In 1943, Estrada became one of four students privately tutored by Frida Kahlo, and began painting murals. Although he has also painted canvases, he is best known for his murals.
He became a professor in 1948, then the director of his old alma mater La Esmeralda in the early 1980s. He has murals all over Mexico and paintings in various collections across the world. His work is self described as "a mixture of the popular as well as the hidden". His murals are traditional Mexican folklore, country scenes, flowers and fruit, painted with bright colors.
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