Born December 1, 1918, in Cuernavaca, Alfredo Gauti Rojo's father was a lawyer. Although he started started drawing at the age of seven, Gauti Rojo did not consider art as a career until later when he saw Diego Rivera's murals. He was selected to help Eduardo Solares complete a mural in his hometown using the fresco technique and was then sold on watercolor! He spent his career vying for watercolor to be recognized as a reputable medium.
Gauti Rojo attended Escuela de Artes Plasticas, after first enrolling in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria as a law student. After graduating, he began his career as a teacher of art, founding the Instituto de Arte de Mexico in Colonia Roma. After organizing the Sociedad de Mexicanas Acuarelistas, he used the group as the basis for establishing the National Watercolor Museum, in Mesico City. Gauti Rojo was considered one of the best Mexican watercolorists of the 20th century. He painted (uniquely) with his paper vertical, layering thin strips of color. However watercolor remained a mystery for him...in his words: "watercolors do what they want to do. No one can really say they have dominated the technique. Every time I start a new painting I am terrified that I will fail."
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