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Hermenegildo Sosa (born April 12, 1946)〔Rivera, p.9,11〕 is a Mexican painter and art professor who is best known for colorful depictions of Mexican rural landscapes, especially those of his home state of Tlaxcala. He was born there into a farming family, whose economic condition delayed his education as he had to work from a young age. In his teens he arrived to Mexico City to work as a domestic, but this allowed him to attend school, including painting classes. Eventually, he entered the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", where he eventually gained a career as a professor. Sosa’s has been extensively exhibited in the Mexico City area, his home state of Tlaxcala and has been exhibited in the United States and Germany. His work has been recognized with various awards, publications, tributes and membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. ==Background== Sosa (full name José Hermenegildo Sosa Zamora) was born in the small rural community of San Andrés Buenavista, Tlaxcala, northwest of Mexico City.〔 He comes from a family of farm workers, including his father Rafael Sosa, who was also an ejido (communal farm) leader. His mother was Cirenia Zamora, a homemaker, with Sosa being the twelfth of their fourteen children.〔Rivera, p. 26〕 His creative tendencies appeared early and were encouraged by his parents;〔Galería Universitaria, p. 7〕 however; his father was killed when Sosa was only five.〔Rivera, p.11, 26〕 This forced his mother to leave San Andrés with her three youngest children, which included Hermenegildo, and live in the larger town of Apizaco, Tlaxcala, arriving when Sosa was eight.〔Rivera, p. 26〕 Sosa had to start working while very young, doing a number of jobs to support himself and his family.〔 This included herding sheep, which later influenced his art as it allowed him to observe nature and the cycle of the seasons.〔〔 Economics and his family situation meant that he began and completed school late, but he maintained his determination to get an education, which in later life would allow him to support his mother and siblings.〔〔Rivera, p. 12〕 At age ten, he went to Mexico City to work as a domestic service at a private home, initially sending money home to his mother.〔〔 He began primary school at age twelve at the Centro Escolar Revolución, but in his fourth year won a recital competition among primary schools in Mexico City. In 1961, at age 15, he is reunited with his mother, who had remarried and moved to Mexico City as well. Sosa went onto study middle school at the Maestra Guadalupe Núñez y Parra School in 1964, the same year he exhibited a series of watercolors he did at the school. The school promoted his work.〔 However his stepfather opposed Sosa’s artistic ambitions and eliminated his chances of entering the National School of Arts (ENAP) in 1967 by destroying needed documents in Sosa’s face.〔〔 So a few weeks later, Sosa took a painting class at the Casa del Lago, an institution supported by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Here he learned the basics of composition, working during his free time and on any material from napkins to actual canvas.〔Rivera, p.12, 27〕 The teacher of this class, José Rivera, arranged to allow Sosa to attend an ENAP class as an unmatriculated student with Fermín Rojas, and Sosa participated in an exhibition with the class. Rojas recognized the young man’s talent and encouraged him to continue his studies.〔Rivera, p. 11, 27〕 However, Sosa could not continue at the school because of his lack of credentials.〔Rivera, p. 27〕 Instead, he finished middle school at age 23 and was able to get steady employment a buy a modest house in the Granjas Valle de Guadalupe, Seccion B, a housing tract just outside the bounds of Mexico City. This allowed him to distance himself from his stepfather while maintaining a relationship with his mother.〔 By age 26, Sosa had completed high school and enrolled at La Esmeralda, studying from 1973 to 1978, when he earned his bachelors in visual arts.〔〔Rivera, p. 13, 27〕 In 1988, he received his masters in fine arts from the same institution.〔Rivera, p. 32〕 Sosa learned various styles of drawing and painting, but his rural background in part led him to be interested in landscape painting.〔 His art studies allowed him to look at the landscapes around his hometown in a new light, the fields, farms, vegetation, and the colors of the different seasons, along with the sky both day and night.〔Rivera, p. 13〕 In the 1970s, this format was undervalued and not taught at La Esmeralda .〔 For this reason, Sosa taught himself the art by studying the works of famous landscape artists.〔 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「Hermenegildo Sosa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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