- Francisco Goitia
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name = Francisco García
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birthdate =4 October 1882 [http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/rpomade/rpartiofmexico1104.html mexconnect.com] , accessed 8 September 2008]
location =Fresnillo ,Zacatecas ,Mexico
deathdate =26 March 1960 es icon [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:U1P8MBC2QGEJ:redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/publicaciones/publi_quepaso/fgoitia1.htm+%22Francisco+Goitia%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk Google Cache of redescolar.ilce.edu.mx page] , accessed 8 September 2008]
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nationality = Mexican
field = Oil painting/Realism
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awards =Francisco Bollaín y Goitia García (
4 October 1882 -26 March 1960 ) was a realist painter fromFresnillo in the state ofZacatecas ,Mexico .Goitia studied at the
Academia de San Carlos inMexico City from 1898 under the direction ofGerman Gedovius ,Jose Maria Velasco ,Saturnino Herran andJulio Ruelas . In 1904 Goitia moved toBarcelona ,Spain under the tutelage of the SpanishPre-Raphaelite Francisco Galí . Goitia had his first successful exhibition at theSalon Pares . Four years later Goitia went toRome and became interested in classicalarchitecture . While in Italy Goitia held exhibitions and was awarded a medal for his work. With the fall ofPorfirio Diaz , Goitia lost his grant and was forced to return to Mexico in 1912.During the
Mexican Revolution , Goitia worked as the official painter for General Angel ofPancho Villa 's army. Goitia claims to have disinterred executed soldiers and to have hung them on cacti as models for his "Ahorcado" ("Hung People") paintings.After the conflict, Goitia went back to Mexico City where he matured as an artist during the era of
Diego Rivera andJosé Clemente Orozco . He was given a professorship at his alma mater. Goitia painted canvases with a blend of realism andimpressionism . Goitia described painting his masterwork "Tata Jesuchristo" by observingOaxaca n peasants on the Day of the Dead for hours, until one grieving peasant stretched while crying and pointed her foot up. That gesture became the center of the composition.Goitia lived most of his life as a hermit in self-imposed poverty in a shack near
Xochimilco . He died on26 March 1960 ofpneumonia .In
Anita Brenner 's 1929 study of Mexican Art "Idols Behind Altars", Goitia is given a full chapter and is described as the most "Mexican" of Mexican artists and as the mystic of Mexican art. In 1988 Diego Lopez made a film titled "Goitia, Un Dios Para Si Mismo", in which he relates the story of the artist as a tormented soul.The bulk of Goitia's work is viewable in the Mexican National Art Museum (
MUNAL ) and in the Goitia Museum inZacatecas .References
*Noyola Anticuarios. [http://www.noyolaanticuarios.com/bios/Francisco_Goitia "Biography of Francisco Goitia"] , "Francisco Goitia on Noyola Anticuarios".
External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/goitia_francisco.html Artcyclopedia]
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