"Abel" Antonio Pujol Jiménez (b.

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, April 13, 1913 – d.

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, September 22, 1995) was a Mexican painter and printmaker.

Biography

Pujol was born as son of Antonio Pujol Martorell, a farmer who came from

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, and of his Mexican wife Dolores Jiménez. In 1929 he moved to

, where he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 1933 he became a member of the

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. Together with

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, Miguel Tzab,

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and Grace Greenwood, he painted his first

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at the Abelardo Rodríguez market in Mexico City. After he participated in the first Panamerican artist's congress against war and fascism ( es, Primer Congreso Panamericano de Artistas Contra la Guerra y el Fascismo) in New York City, he stood there together with

David Alfaro Siqueiros David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique. Along with ...

Luis Arenal Luis Arenal Bastar (born Teapa, 1908 or 1909 – died Mexico City, May 7, 1985) was a Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor. He was a founding member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the S ...

and

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for a while after 1936, and they organized an experimental art workshop. During the

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, he joined the

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in 1937. After his return to Mexico, he participated in the

Taller de Gráfica Popular The ''Taller de Gráfica Popular'' (Spanish: "People's Graphic Workshop") is an artist's print collective founded in Mexico in 1937 by artists Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O'Higgins, and Luis Arenal. The collective was primarily concerned with using ar ...

and painted a mural at the ''Sindicato de Trabajadores Electricistas'' building''Antonio Pujol''
Graphic Witness. in 1939, together with Alfaro Siqueiros,

and José respectively Josep Renau Berenguer. When he moved to

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in 1940, he met his wife Ada Canabe Nalerio. They returned to Mexico in 1960. Three years later, his father died.blog entry of his son Rafael Pujol Canabe, September 26, 2006. Abel was not his real name because that was an alias that he adopted during the time he lived in Montevideo under the name of Abel Beltrán Bastar.

Further works

* "Los alimentos y los problemas del obrero", mural in Mexico City (1934–1935) * "Fray Servando y Javier Mina" * Still Life with Clock, 1930s. lithograph, Davis Museum and Cultural Center * "Niño Campesino", lithograph * Decoration works at the ''Teatro Cívico Alvaro Obregón'', since 1935 ''Teatro del Pueblo''''Murales de O'Higgins en el Centro Histórico exhiben severos daños''
(Spanish), LaJornada.

References

20th-century Mexican painters Mexican male painters Mexican engravers Mexican muralists Mexican people of the Spanish Civil War Mexican people of Spanish descent Artists from Mexico City Artists from the State of Mexico 1913 births 1995 deaths 20th-century engravers International Brigades personnel 20th-century Mexican male artists {{printmaker-stub