Shinzaburo Takeda is a Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. He is considered one of

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's most important artists. Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and

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Life and career

Takeda was born in 1935 in

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, Japan and trained at the University of Fine Arts of Tokyo. In 1963, he visited Mexico, studying mural painting with Armando Carmona and

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at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. Later studying lithography with Francisco Vasquez at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Graficas. In 1978 he moved to Oaxaca, where he became a professor of art at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca. His students include notable artists, such as Fulgencio Lazo and Alejandro Santiago. He previously worked as a painter and graphic artist for the

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. Since 1980 Takeda has been chair of the Department of Art at the Universidad Autónoma "Benito Juárez" de Oaxaca. The ''Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda'' (National Biennale of Graphic Arts Shinzaburo Takeda) is held in his honor.

References

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