Luis Nishizawa - Mexican Artists

Luis Nishizawa (born 1920 in San Mateo Ixtacalco, Mexico) is a famous Mexican painter of Japanese descent.

Nishizawa’s artistic studies started when he took admission in the Academy of San Carlos in 1942 and during 1951, the date of his first display in the Hall of Mexican Plastic Art; he has been an untiring producer and advocate of Mexican art. His traditional approach and his decrease and generalization of forms ally him with such immense landscape painters as Dr Atl, Gerardo Murillo. He also gave classes at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during 1955. Nishizawa is known as one of Mexico’s biggest landscape artists of the 20th century. He currently works and teaches in Toluca, in a late eighteenth-century house, which he has converted to a studio and museum.

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