The radical landscape paintings of Mexico's Dr. Atl
Submitted by mexbiznews on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:14am
By Daniel Hernandez / Los Angeles Times
He was a muralist, an educator and a civic activist who once helped save a colonial-era convent from demolition by moving in and living there. He published books, invented paints and signed his works "Dr. Atl," an imaginary honorific using the Nahuatl-language word for water.
Born Gerardo Murillo in Guadalajara in 1875, Dr. Atl is one of the most accomplished and enigmatic figures from the golden period of modern art in Mexico.
Yet Dr. Atl's greatest pieces have resided mostly in private collections, making them rarely available for viewing to the public.
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