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(b Oaxaca, 29 Aug. 1899; d Mexico City, 24 June 1991). Mexican painter, printmaker, sculptor, and collector, the son of Zapotec Indians. Apart from the trio of great muralists—Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros—he was probably the most eminent Mexican artist of the 20th century, but his work was very different from theirs, for he was concerned with pictorial values rather than with the political messages they held so dear.
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Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)