Fermín Revueltas Sánchez (July 7, 1901 in

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– September 7, 1935 in

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) was a Mexican painter.

Biography

Fermín Revueltas was son of Gregorio Revueltas Gutiérrez and his wife Romana Sánchez Arias. The Revueltas Sánchez family came from the North of Mexico, and lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco, from 1910 to 1913. Due to the

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, the father decided that Fermín and his brother

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had to visit school in the United States. He attended

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from 1917 to 1920, and afterwards he continued his studies in

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. Back in Mexico, Fermín Revueltas visited the open-air painting school in

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. He became director of the " José María Velasco" school in Guadalupe, a part of Mexico City, and in 1923 he painted

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s at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria alongside others. In 1928 he joined the

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. Revueltas participated in several artist groups, amongst others he joined the Stridentism movement, and was member of the

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group. When he died at the age of 34 years, many of his works were unfinished.''Fermín Revueltas''
, ''Museo Andrés Blaisten. In 1991, Javier Audirac filmed a documentary about him, entitled ''Fermín Revueltas o El color'' (''Fermín Revueltas or The color'').also used: Fermín Revueltas in the Spanish Wikipedia Con los estridentistas

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Bibliography

Zurián, Carla. ''Fermín Revueltas. Constructor de espacios'', México: Editorial RM - INBA, 2002. 1901 births 1935 deaths Artists from Durango People from Santiago Papasquiaro Mexican communists 20th-century Mexican painters Mexican male painters Mexican muralists 20th-century Mexican male artists {{mexico-painter-stub