The painter Benito Messeguer was born in Catalonia, Spain, on October 27, 1927, but the family emigrated to Mexico with the onslaught of the Spanish Civil War, when he was 14. He studied art at La Esmeralda and then with Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. He went on to become a painter, engraver and muralist, but since he was greatly influenced by Rivera and Orozco, he is best known for his murals.
His work has been exhibited all over Mexico, and in Paris and Tokyo. He also was the director at La Esmeralda as well as at The National Institute of Fine Arts in the Center for Advanced Studies in Plastic Research. I love the juxtaposition of earthy "rural folk" enamored with glitzy modern styles in Shop Window (1956) below.
Sadly Messeguer died at the young age of 51 in great pain from leukemia.
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