He is featured in Pisando en el Cielo, Pintores de Oaxaca, a supurb
documentary film about Oaxacan art and artists we hope to show you with an
accompanying translation.
Morales' work is known for exaggerated
hands and feet, little dogs, and the dreamy floating of his figures.
He is the founder of the Rodolfo Morales Cultural Foundation. He
makes a collage at the beginning each day to provide support for the work
of the Foundation, through which he guides the restoration of village
churches and convents and contributes to ecological and humanitarian
relief projects. We have several of these collages in our
collection.
From ARTTHOUGHTS by Gresham Riley in the May 2001 issue of ArtMatters: The Philadelphia Region's Magazine of the Arts & Antiques.
In fact, Oaxaca has a legitimate claim to the title of "artistic capital of Mexico," because it has been home for three of the country’s four most important artists ---- Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Morales, and Francisco Toledo. Only Diego Rivera did not have a significant Oaxaca connection.
Until Morales died on January 30th of this year at the age of 76, he and Toledo had reigned for a decade as Mexico’s greatest living artists. Both in death and in life Rodolfo Morales was very much an artist of the country’s indigenous peoples, especially its women. His death was the occasion for a period of national mourning that was still in evidence when we arrived two weeks later. In his large body of paintings Morales employed a surrealistic style, enriched by a fertile imagination, to depict folkloric themes and dreamlike images in rich colors. Women dominated his canvases because, as he once explained, Mexico would be lost without the steadfast work of women. They bear the burden of day-to-day living and find solutions to those problems to which men simply resign themselves.
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Rodolfo Morales es el Maestro de nuestra colección. Nacio en 1925 en Ocotlan de
Morelos, Oaxaca Su resume tiene seis paginas de largo comenzando desde sus
estudios en 1948 hasta sus multiples exhibiciones indiviuales a traves de todo
el mundo. Son caracteristicos del arte de Morales el tamano exagerado de los pies
y manos, los perros pequeños y la presentacion flotante de sus figuras. Fundador de
la Fundacion Cultural Rodolfo Morales. El crea un nuevo collage todos los dias para
asi apoyar a la fundación en su tarea de restauración de Iglesias. Nosotros tenemos
varios de estos collages en nuestra colección.
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