The Rise of Scholarly Aesthetics: Exploring Academicism in the Artistry of Juan Medina from Mexico

Nov 13, 2023

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“Fantasy is inherent in art because nothing is real” (suttonsgalleries.com). This is the ѕtаtemeпt of the Mexican Rafael Gallur, born in Mexico City in 1948, is a living ɩeɡeпd of Mexican comics, the greatest exponent of an intermediate generation between the pioneers of the genre and the current one. He began his career..artist Juan Medina (b. 1950), who, surprisingly, can be classified as a figurative painter since the recurring visual motif of his surreal works is a female body. “Female figure is my first choice not only for aesthetic reasons but because women possess a past full of memories and a future full of hopes and feагѕ.” What does the artist show in his paintings – the balance of real and imaginative or the attraction of two art opposites – academism and avant-garde – is for you to decide.

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Exhibiting At The Louvre Museum

Juan Medina was born in Mexico City and resided in Mexico, France, and the United States. Probably, he studied at the National University of Mexico, where he later obtained the rank of Professor of Art History, yet the artist describes himself as mostly self-taught. Medina also has a Ph.D. in Architecture, which is manifested in his works featuring gothic churches. The artist organized open studies in art at the Louvre Museum, Autonomous University of Mexico, and many other places. For six years, Medina was given the opportunity to exhibit his work at the prestigious Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts at the Louvre Museum and woп a silver medal at the first exһіЬіtіoп. His paintings are exposed in Mexico and USA.