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Francisco Icaza (5 October 1930 – 3 May 2014) was a Mexican artist best known for his drawings about his traveling chronics, and his oil paintings. He spent much of his life living and visiting various countries in the world. He began painting as a child at the refugee against the bombs in the Mexican embassy in Germany during the rise of nazism, he painted as a posture against the war. Icaza exhibited his work both in Mexico and abroad in Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia and India, standing out his three major individual exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno at México city. He also painted a mural dedicated to Bertolt Brecht: La Farándula, at the Casino de la Selva in Cuernavaca, a focus of controversy when the work was moved and restored in the early 2000s. He painted other murals for the Mexican Pavilion at Hemisfair in Houston Texas: Urban Flowers, for the Mexican Pavilion at Montreal Canada: Canto al Barroco Maya; and, for the Pavilion of México in Osaka: Repressive Computers, this mural is protected at the Abstract Museum Manuel Felguerez in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, and is part of the other murals of Osaka considered as a human patrimony. He was an active member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, and also member and founder of the important artistic movements : Interiorists, Independent Saloon, and Confrontation 66. ==Early life== Icaza was born in the Mexican embassy in San Salvador in 5 October 1930, the son of a well known diplomat. Much of his childhood was spent in Germany with the rise of the Nazis. As he spent much time alone as a child, he began painting. His youth was very nomadic living in and visiting countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and America.〔 A stay in Madrid gave him experience with the works of European masters, but it was after a year of studying political science at the Lovaina University that he decided to study painting at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. In 1951, he moved to New York invited by the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, he studied with him the art of painting; and also in New York, graduated himself as a photography director for Television〔 Later, he keep on studyng the art of painting under Antonio Rodríguez Luna in Mexico, city.〔 Icaza himself recognized the impact that his nomadic upbringing and the war had on his personality.〔 As a youth, he was diagnosed with Babel syndrome, a type of neurosis defined by Swiss psychologist Claude Piron.〔 In 1951, he had his first depressive crisis which led him to decide to move to his native country of Mexico. By 1953, he had developed a daily habit of painting for therapeutic purposes and to deal with his solitude.〔 The artist spoke multiple languages and was a devout reader of Albert Camus. He was a friend of Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley and admirer of José Clemente Orozco, all of whom affected his work, as well as his political ideas, which were strongly socialist and did not changed over his life. He was well versed in contemporary and past art tendencies, and also had ample knowledge of ancient cultures and literatures of various countries and epochs.〔 The artist stated he was fascinated by codices and other historical works that take advantage of signs and images to convey their meaning. From the 1950s to 1968 he remained in Mexico, but the political turmoil after the Tlatelolco massacre caused him to leave Mexico again, not returning to remain until 1990. During that time he lived or spent time in United States, Guatemala, Colombia, Spain and United Kingdom.〔 In the early 2000s he was involved in a controversy related to his mural done at the Casino de la Selva in Cuernavaca. In 2001, the Costco group bought the former casino to build new facilities, a move Icaza questioned the validity of. He protested the sale and the plan to restore his and other murals. The project went ahead, but the artists were not permitted to see the restoration work. After the murals were shown to the public in their new location in 2004, the artists denounced the works as copies or fakes, claiming the originals were destroyed. He was married to Tony Marcín for 24 years and lived in Mexico.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francisco Icaza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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