Gilbert Luján
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Gilbert Luján | |
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Born | October 16, 1940 French Camp, California, U.S. |
Died | July 24, 2011 |
Other names | Magu Luján |
Education | East Los Angeles College, California State University, Long Beach, University of California, Irvine |
Occupation(s) | Sculptor, muralist, painter, educator |
Organization | Los Four |
Movement | Chicano art movement |
Gilbert "Magu" Luján (October 16, 1940 – July 24, 2011)
Early life and education
Luján was born in
After serving in the United States Air Force, Luján returned home from three years in England in 1962 and began to attend college, first at East Los Angeles College,[citation needed] then to California State University, Long Beach, where he earned his B.A. in ceramic sculpture in 1969[citation needed] and then to University of California, Irvine, where he earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 1973.[citation needed]
Background
By this time of his graduation in 1973,
- The significance of Los Four mirrored the socio-political introspection and concerns of Raza at that time besides providing some iconographic vocabulary to initiate definitions of our ethno-art forms. Our Los Four Xicano contingency ran against some Euro-aesthetic standards of the period. We, as pictorial artists, gave a visual voice to those interests of parity for our young artist constituency-culture. It was a form of cooperation binding us by our sociological circumstance, indigenous paradigms and our adopted response to unify ourselves along political cultural oriented purposes, in lieu of solely aesthetical ones.[4]
From 1976 until 1980, Luján taught at the La Raza Studies Department at Fresno City College becoming department chair 1980.[citation needed] Since then, Luján worked full-time on his artwork, devoted to developing his aesthetic. During the years of 1999 to 2007, Magu held his art studio operations at the Pomona Art Colony in downtown Pomona, California, helping to garner appreciation and support of the arts in the city and surrounding communities. During 2005, he took on a position as art professor at Pomona College, one of the seven prestigious Claremont Colleges.
In 1990 Magu was commissioned as a design principal for the
Magu's artwork became famous in its own right throughout the 1980s and 1990s as it used colorful imagery,
- "My art intentions, over the years, have been to use Mesoamerican heritage as well as implementing current popular Art and cultural folk sources as the content substance to make Chicanarte."[4]
One of his sons is the accordionist Otoño Luján, who is a member of the band Conjunto Los Pochos.[5]
Installations and exhibitions
- Hollywood/Vine (Los Angeles Metro station)[citation needed]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art[citation needed]
- Corcoran Gallery of Art[citation needed]
- University of California, Irvine[citation needed]
- Brooklyn Museum[citation needed]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[citation needed]
- Guadalupe Center for the Arts[citation needed]
- Centro de la Raza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA[citation needed]
- "Inaugural Museum Show" at the El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, Texas[citation needed]
- "Le Demon des Anges", a European Art Tour, with 16 Chicano Artists in Nante & Leon, France; Barcelona, Spain; and in Sweden[citation needed]
- "Caliente y Picante" an HBO Art Special[citation needed]
- The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry[6]
References
- ^ "Pioneer LA Chicano artist Gilbert 'Magu' Lujan dies at 70". Southern California Public Radio. July 26, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ "Gilbert 'Magu' Lujan, Chicano artist, dies in Arcadia hospital at 70". Daily Breeze. July 27, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Oral history interview with Gilberto Sanchez Luján, 1997 Nov. 7-17, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ a b Gilbert Luján. "Represent". Cal Poly Pomona. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ Gerber, Marisa (April 3, 2014). "More fans of the accordion are squeezing in lessons". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "The Cheech Marin Collection". The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum. Riverside Art Museum. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
External links
- "Gilbert "Magu" Luján". latinoartcommunity.org. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- "Magulandia". magulandia.com. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- Images of Luján's work on Hollywood & Vine metro station:
- "Gilbert Luján, Hooray for Hollywood, Brown Derby". Public Art in LA. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- "Gilbert Luján, Hooray for Hollywood, Vine View". Public Art in LA. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- "Untitled Murals by Gilbert Luján". grconnect.com. Retrieved August 13, 2011.