Julio Ruelas
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Julio Ruelas (June 21, 1870 – September 16, 1907) was a Mexican graphic artist, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Ruelas was the principal illustrator of the Museum of the City of Mexico and in the Zacatecas museum. Artistically, he was noted for creating etched images depicting his own face, incorporating black, twisted lines to give an impression of being tormented.[1]
Born in
Danzig
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Ruelas returned to Mexico in 1895 but spent the last three years of his life in Paris, where he died from tuberculosis on September 16, 1907.
Notable works
- El suplicio de la Reina Mora
- La domadora (1897)
- Retrato de Rubén Campos
- El rapto (1901)
- Antón (1901)
- A la sombra de un hermes (1901)
- Autorretrato con musa (1903)
- Confiteor (1903)
- Elfumios (1987)
- Fauno tocando la flauta (1903)
- Efluvios (1903)
- Doncella sobre ave gigante (1903)
- En el país de los gigantes (1904)
- Romance en el país de los enanos (1904)
- Mujer alacrán (1904)
- En el país de los enanos (1905)
- Auto de fé (1906)
- Buitre herido (1906)
- Los fuegos fatuos (ca. 1907)
- La mendiga
- La escalera del dragón
- Esfinge
- La princesa cautiva
- La muerte llegó de improviso
References
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Art Encyclopedia (2002). The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc.
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