José Luis Cuevas

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José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist and was one of the first to challenge the then-broadening Mexican muralism movement as a prominent participant of the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation).

He was primarily self-taught artist, whose styles and influences are moored to the darker side of life, often depicting distorted figures and human debasement.

He remained a controversial figure throughout his career, not only for his often shocking photos but also for his opposition to writers and artists who believe in fraud or produce only for money.

The José Luis Cuevas Museum, which houses the majority of his artwork and his personal art collection in 1992, was opened in Mexico City's historic center.

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Early career

He rented a space on Donceles street to use as a studio rather than returning to school because of his poor health, so he didn't know how long he'd live. He decided that it would be more beneficial to dedicate himself to his art. Cuevas learned how to do horse back riding and basket weave for money. He worked on illustrations for The News and, despite his lack of formal education, he taught art history at Coronet Hall Institute. One of his classes was the opportunity to visit the La Castaneda mental hospital, where his brother worked to bring the patients.

Cuevas was often described as vain, a pathological liar, and a hypochondriac, who was mainly concerned with sickness and death, especially his own. José Luis Cuevas is José Luis Cuevas' "true love of José Luis Cuevas is that he is more in love with himself than with his art," writer René Avilés Fabila said once, "because he is an artist more in love with himself than with his art." The reason for this quote is that he has created so many self-portraits that it is like having a multitude of mirrors. Cuevas said he did not agree that he was vain, and that the practice began in 1955 when he decided to snap a picture of himself every day, which he continued to do up to the end of his life. He was one of Mexico's most photographed contemporary artists. According to one of the nutty tales, he went to a "vampire brothel" where they scratch and paw at customers. Gloria, a 70-year-old woman, was seduced by him, and another one was thrown at him by Marlene Dietrich. He confessed to being a little anxious and defensive about being cast in a negative light. Julio Scherer Garca was branded as an enemy for interfering with his writing career, according to him. Rufino Tamayo was also feuding with him. José Chávez Morado, Guillermo González Camarena, and the "Frente Popular de Artes Plasticas" were envious of him, accusing him of supporting the CIA in the 1950s when he was emerging among mainstream artists. Even in his last years, he made deference by opening his museum to all of his families, but those he fears are not allowed inside.

In the 1960s, he went to Morocco to study Islamic art, meeting painter Francis Bacon in Tangiers. Since his mother's death in the 1970s, he became an atheist. He lived in Mexico from 1976 to 1979, lecturing on various books, serigraphs, and lithographs for publication. When he returned to Mexico, he opened the exhibit "José Luis Cuevas." “El regreso de unagen para pródigo” translates to “José Luis Cuevas) Another prodigal son has returned (again).

Cuevas died on July 3, 2017, in Mexico City, at the age of 83, amid his hopes that he would live to over a hundred because several tarot readings had warned him otherwise.

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