Happy Birthday Fermin Revueltas Sanchez!
The Mexican muralist Fermin Revueltas Sanchez was born today, July 7, 1901, in Santiago Papasquiaro. His family relocated to the Guadalajara area in 1910 and then in 1917, Fermin and his brother were sent to the US to finish school to avoid the Revolution. When he returned to Mexico he became the director of the Jose Maria Velasco school. Revueltas Sanchez painted several murals during his short lifetime. He was a member of organizations, both art and political, including the first avant-garde movement in Mexico: Stridentism. Fermin Revueltas Sanchez died at the young age of 34, in 1935.
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