Jazzamoart

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Jazzamoart
Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
NationalityMexican
Known forpainting, sculpture
AwardsJazzamoart website

Jazzamoart (born May 28, 1951) is a Mexican artist best known for his painting which is mostly connected to jazz music in some way. Born Francisco Javier Vázques Estupiñán in Irapuato, Guanajuato, his talent was recognized early and he took his professional name from his dual passions of jazz and art. He is best known as a painter with over 400 individual and collective exhibitions on several continents, but he has also done monumental sculpture, stage scenery and has collaborated with musicians. He lives in Mexico City.

Life

Jazzamoart was born with the name of Francisco Javier Vázques Estupiñán on May 28, 1951, in Irapuato, Guanajuato. He is one of seven children born to Rasaura Estupiñán and Javier Vázquez Farfán.

Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1969 with Manuel Herrera Cartalla and Gilberto Aceves Navarro among his teachers.[1][3]

His exposure to music began early as well. His grandfather owned the most luxurious salon in Irapuato called El Lujo. One peculiarity of the establishment was that all the

New Orleans jazz saying that it is too mellow and lacks intensity. His obsession with jazz music is such that musicians often appear in his dreams, especially Charlie Parker.[2]

In 1973, he married Nora Smith, who has since managed the business end of the art as well as the driving as Jazzamoart chooses not to learn.[1][2] The couple have three children, Jazzamoart, Viart (“via”(life) and “art”) and Poettier (“poet” and “tier”(earth)). They also have one grandson, who is also named Jazzamoart.[1] He lives in Mexico City, with his studio, father's apartment and brother's music studio across the street. His oldest son plays saxophone and has toured with bands in Latin America, the US and Europe.[2]

Career

Jazzamoart began his career selling paintings of generic scenes of Mexican life on the streets of Mexico City.[2] Today he is a successful painter and sculptor but is better known for his painting.[5]

He has had over 350 individual and collective exhibitions of his work on various continents.

Guanajuato and the Concurso de Pintura Dante Alighieri in Mexico City (1979).[1][8]

In the 1980s, he exhibited at the Concurso National de Arte de INBA (1981, 1982, 1985), I Bienal Tamayo (1982), the Metropolitan Gallery of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, José María Velasco Gallery and Chapultepec Gallery (1983), Palacio de Bellas Artes (1984, 1986), Museo del Chopo and Ollin Yolliztli in Mexico City, Casa de Artes de Oaxaca(1984), Phoenix Art Museum, L’space Cardin Gallery in Paris, the Joan Miró Internactional Drawing Competition in Barcelona, and the Rufino Tamayo Museum (1985), I Biennal in Cuenca, Ecuador, III Tamayo Biennial and I Biennial in Miami (1986), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Carrillo Gil Art Museum and San Carlos Museum in Mexico City (1987) and the Scott Alan Gallery (1988).[1][8]

In the 1990s, he exhibited at the

San Ildefonso College and the SCHP Museum in Mexico City(1999).[1][8]

In the 2000s, he exhibited at

San Luis Potosí and Torre Mayor in Mexico City.[1]

In addition to exhibitions, he has done work related to the music industry, especially jazz artists. His visual works and stage settings have appeared with well-known jazz musicians.

Zocalo of Mexico City. In 2008 he designed the scenery of the Festival Nacional de Jazz en Auditoro Nezahualcoyotl at UNAM.[1]

He has done a number of monumental works, mostly sculpture. In 1989 he painted a 360 m2 mural at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. In 1992 he created a monumental sculpture sponsored by art collector Francisco Servin. In 1995, he created a monumental sculpture in

Colima. In 2004, he created a totem pole in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec.[1]

Other kinds of artistic projects have included creating a giant

Papalote Children's Museum, and creating the commemorative design for the 60th anniversary of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in 2006.[1]

He has received over twenty national and international awards.[9] These include the International Drawing Prize Joan Miró in Barcelona (1985), grand prize at the I Biennial of Miami (1986), Salón Nacional de Pintura prize (1987), grand prize of the VI Festival del Centro Histórico in Mexico City (1990), San Juan Bautista Medal from the Universidad de La Salle in Mexico City (1999), Cangrejo de Oro from the city of Tampico (2002), Key to the City and the Silver Gardina from the state of Nayarit (2004), first prize for painting at the International Art Contest in Australia (2005) and first prize at the Artelista Contest in Barcelona, Spain (2006).[1][3][9]

Other recognitions include membership in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte from 1993 to 2000, as well as membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. In 1991, José Alfredo Botaya filmed a documentary about the artist and in 2000, musician Francisco Téllez composed a series based on Jazzamoart's work.[1] In 2009, the city of Irapuato opened the Jazzamoart Gallery and La Rana Editorial publishes a book of his art called “Jazzamaoart” with texts by Carlos Montemayor and Jorge Juanes. His work can be found as part of the collection of the Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles.[1][9]

Artistry

Jazzamoart has created oils,

watercolors, pastels, pencil and carbon drawings, sculptures in wood, metal and ceramics, toys, Judas figures, rug designs, masks, stage scenery, piñatas, Day of the Dead altars, and designs for boxes, suitcases, ties, dresses and furniture.[3][9]

According to his website, his work is “intimately related to music, men’s passions and the every way of life.”[1] His main inspiration is jazz music, jazz musicians and their lives, with about eighty percent of his work related to this.[4][10] He has said that while other artists have used the music as inspiration, he does not think there is anyone who dedicates as much to it as he does.[4]

His painting often is a visualization of music with colors and forms substituting for tones and rhythm.[9] For him, painting is performance. He paints to music with his hand and brush mimicking the music and considered the music essential to his art. "I try to capture in paint the sounds and images of the music and the personalities of the musicians," he says. His approach to painting is rapid and gestural. Most of his jazz paintings have a jazzed, nervous quality, with figures and images look uncontrolled. Other works are calmer, such as some of his nightclub scenes.[2] Many of his pieces are titled after pieces of jazz music and he also gives live performances of his painting with a band.[2][11]

He is a member of the generation of Mexican artists born in the 1950s.

Van Gogh, Rufino Tamayo, José Luis Cuevas and José Clemente Orozco. Elements from each of these can be seen in paintings with the music used as a unifying aspect.[2]

The saxophone appears most often in his work, which he considers to be sophisticated and sensual like a sculpture. He even collects saxophones but says he cannot play well. He also plays the drums. He has an affinity for Mexican handcrafts and folk art, especially masks which is a recurring feature in his work and the jazz musicians often have mask-like features. The use of the mask symbolized the multiplicity of human identity, that life is improvisation and invention.[2]

Other inspirations for his art include his family,

AIDS .[5] For Mexico's Bicentennial in 2010, he held an exhibition called “ Todos somos héroes” (We are all heroes) dealing with Mexico's history .[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Chronology". Archived from the original on 2012-11-07. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  2. ^
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  3. ^ a b c d "Javier Vázquez (Jazzamoart), n. 1952" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Museo Blaisten. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e Xavier Quirarte (December 15, 2011). "Jazzamoart presenta músicos al carbón" [Jazzamoart presents musicians in carbon]. Milenio (in Spanish). Mexico City. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  5. ^ a b Merry Mac Masters (August 9, 2001). "Jazzamoart vuelve a exhibir obra tridimensional" [Jazzamoart returns to exhibit his tridimensional work]. La Jornada (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Jorge Barajas (May 10, 2011). "Jazzamoart, un retrato sonoro de la pintura" [Jazzamoart, a sonorous portrait of painting]. Revista Mil Mesetas (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  7. ^ a b "Compartirá Jazzamoart su pasión por el futbol" [Jazzamoart will share his passion for soccer]. Publimetro (in Spanish). Mexico City. June 3, 2010. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Jazzamoart" (in Spanish). Mexico: Government of Tamaulipas. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Carlos Montemayor (December 24, 2008). "El arte jubiloso de Jazzamoart" [The joyful art of Jazzamoart]. La Jornada (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  10. ^ "Es la música gran pretexto para trabajar de Jazzamoart" [For Jazzamoart, music is a great pretext for working]. El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). Torreón, Mexico. November 7, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  11. ^ "Jazzamoart y su arte" [Jazzamoart and his art]. El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. July 19, 2000. Retrieved August 22, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Exhibe Jazzamoart 'Todos somos héroes'" [Jazzamoart exhibits "Todos somos Héroes"]. Periodico AM (in Spanish). Mexico City. October 18, 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
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