Francisco Díaz de León was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 engraver.

Biography

Díaz de León studied at the Academia de San Carlos and visited the open-air paintings school of Saint Anita in Chimalistac. He was one of the pioneers of modern Mexican engraving. He used techniques and taught like drypoint

Drypoint

Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used...

, etching

Etching

Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...

, aquatint

Aquatint

Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.Intaglio printmaking makes marks on the matrix that are capable of holding ink. The inked plate is passed through a printing press together with a sheet of paper, resulting in a transfer of the ink to the paper...

 and others. With his concept work in service of the Secretaría de Educación Pública

Secretaría de Educación Pública

The Secretaría de Educación Pública is a Mexican federal government authority with Cabinet representation and responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards in Mexico.Additionally, it has the following responsibilities:*Creation...

 (SEP) he laid the foundation stone of the engraving school, the Escuela de Artes del Libro, and was also founding member of the Academia de Artes

Academia de Artes

The Academia de Artes is the Mexican Academy of Arts founded 1967/1968 by CONACULTA for the promotion of Mexican art. Seat of the institution is the Museo Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico City...

in 1968.

External links

• Francisco Díaz de León (Spanish) at luisarmando.com.mx