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Guillermo Meza (September 11, 1917 – October 2, 1997) was a Mexican painter, known for his oils depicting fantastic background and often distorted human figures, generally with denunciations of society. He was born to a Tlaxcalteca indigenous father of modest means, but his parents had interest in the arts, history and literature. Meza showed interest in art and music in his youth, studying painting with Santos Balmori. Later, he approached Diego Rivera to look for an apprenticeship, but instead, the painter recommended him to the prestigious Galería de Arte Mexicana, which helped him develop as an artist as well as promoted his work for twenty years. Meza won various awards for his work during his career and was also granted membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. ==Life== Meza was the son of Militón Meza García, a Tlaxcalteca indigenous person and Soledad Alvarez Molina. growing up in the Colonia Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City. His father was a tailor and despite their modest means, both he and his wife were interested in culture, buying books and magazines on topics such as painting, music, history and literature.〔 Meza showed interest in drawing and music from an early age, starting with drawing when he was eight. From age twelve to nineteen he studied music on several instruments at the Escuela Popular de Música José Austri.〔〔 His formal schooling went only through the ninth grade because of family finances, then working with his father. However, he also did some work illustrating magazines and in his free time, copied classical figures such as Venus de Milo and Nike of Samothrace, which helped him master depicting the human body and the emotions it can express.〔 In 1933, he entered the Escuela Noctora de Arte para Trabajadores Num 1, studying engraving with Francisco Díaz de León and drawing with Santos Balmori.〔 Balmori invited Meza to work as an assistant on murals he was commissioned to paint in Morelia, Michoacán. With the money he earned, Meza attended the Escuela España-México, a school established to house and education 500 Spanish children who had fled the Spanish Civil War .〔〔 There he met Josefa Sández, better known as Pepita and the couple married in 1947, producing four children Carolina, Federico, Magdalena and Alejandro.〔 Pepita died in 1968 at the couple’s home in the Contreras neighborhood of Mexico City, causing Meza to stop painting completely for a time.〔〔 Meza died at the age of 80 from internal bleeding and heart failure, complications of diabetes. The body was bured at the Panteón Jardin in Mexico City.〔 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「Guillermo Meza (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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