Rafael Coronel
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Rafael Coronel is a painter from Mexico
. He was the son-in-law of Diego Rivera
. His representational paintings have a melancholic sobriety, and include faces from the past great masters, often floating in a diffuse haze.
There are some paintings of his own in Mexico
and in other countries. In what was the convent of San Francisco De Almoloyan y De Asis (Building from the XVI Century), located in Zacatecas
, there is a museum named after him; in this museum, his vast mask colection is shown.
The vocation of being a painter was something hereditary for Rafael. His grandfather used to decorate churches, hi used to paint the decorations all over the walls of the churches. When his father told him that pedro, his brother, was studying to become a painter in Mexico city, he though it was one of the gratests wastes of time ever, because they got no money from painting, even the greatest painters in Mexico had to appeal to other jobs.
When Rafael went to Mexico city he wanted to be a soccer player, a player for the América, but he promissed he would study to become a counter. When he arrived to the D.F., he started to like architecture. In 1952 he won a painting contest. The piece that gave him the victory was the Mujer De Jerez, a piece of art done with crayons, since he had no money to buy better things. he won a scholarship of 300 pesos a month. After winning the contest he stated:"I betrayed my father, but I´ve done goods for the country".
For the scholarship to be effective, he had to study in some painting school, so he decided to enter to "La Esmeralda", two months later he was expelled for disobeying the teachers.
The intentions of Rafael during that time was to show the latinoamerican people without garnishing them like Diego Rivera
, Siqueiros Banderas, or like José Clemente Orozco
. When you leave the apinting alone, the human figure reaches it´s climax point, to the purest representation of the human being, like the paintings of Rembrandt.
Coronel became a lonely man, in 1969 his wife Ruth died, son of Diego Rivera and Lupe Marín, and mother of his only son, Juan Coronel. He has had some girlfriends, and he has traveled around the orld next to them. Traveling helps him to "Clear his vision about Mexico and makes my painting instincts, and makes me be about in front of the canvas with my brush, painting and painting".
He wasn´t doing his weekly parties where half Mexico accuded to.
Rafael worked for twenty years in the studio of his father, says there made the largest plastic production has been achieved. Since 1981 lives in the city of Cuernavaca, in a house surrounded by a wall full of graffiti that appears to protect a vacant lot.
On the occasion of his 80th birthday in September 2011 Fine Arts opened in "retro-futuristic", an exhibition of 109 works that Raphael created 18 that year. These works break with earlier work by Colonel, because "in the same figuration, there are some characters decrepit. The interesting thing is that it puts the focus on the end of life of women and men in old age is different because we were used to see old age redeemed; in these tables, the present old age as decline, never explored that part, "said Juan Coronel Rivera, the son of the artist.
All stages in the creative life are represented in retrofuturism Colonel, not just the time when performing works closely related to Spanish painting, as most of the audience remembers. In the sample there are also sculptures, drawings and works that have never been exhibited. Retrofuturism also presented at the Museo Rafael Coronel in Zacatecas and Monterrey MARCO.
Its rooms preserves a collection of more than 16 000 pieces, including masks, drawings, pots, terracotta, Prehispanic objects, puppets, votive offerings, pictures, crafts, musical instruments and colonial furniture. His collection of masks is considered the largest in the world. It also has a collection of works by Diego Rivera, among which is the study of child self-portrait of Diego's mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, work is on permanent display at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera in the city of Mexico.
The museum shows an exhibition that includes topics such as masks, the devil, Lent, Easter, Easter, the old dance, deer dance, animals, etc.. These masks are works of the artist. However most of the exhibits displayed in the museum collections show that he had, as is the pot room, where many pre-Hispanic figures are shown in a wide exposure. In the shoot-Rosette room displays a collection of puppets from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
1968. February 12-March 2. He exhibits in the Galery of Mexican Art “Rafael Coronel 20 óleos y 100 dibujos del viaje número 13". The exhibition was sponsored by the comitte that organized the Olympics games in Mexico. He exhibited the familiar portrait and the brothers and inside the drawings Naked of a girl and Man Back in june on “Rafael Coronel Oleos”. Exhibition in the Galery of Mexican Art September 9-30. He exhibits "Oleos de Rafael Coronel" in the Galery of Mexican Art. October. He participated on october 4 in La Bendicion. The Mexican-Israeli cultural institute gave him a degree of constancy about the 10 trees that were planted in his name.
1969. September 8. He received from the governor of Zacatecas, Ruiz González, él "Racimo de Oro" gave by the Vitivinícola of Vergel, S.A Company because of his merit as a Zacatecan artista on october 27.
1970. November 13- December 9. He exhibits in The Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, “Botero, Coronel, Rodon”.
1972. April 24-May 20. He exhibited in the Galery of Mexican Art "Rafael Coronel 45 nuevas pinturas". September 10-26 he exhibited in the ex temple of San Agustin in Zacatecas in the collective exhibition “5 Zacatecas painters” (Pedro Coronel, Manuel Felguerez, Rafael Coronel, Francisco de Santiago, José de Santiago).
1973. May 9- July 15. He exhibited La rata en el queso 2, Madrugada en la Merced 1, Santa Martha Acatitla: Lourdes; la rata verde, la rata en la mostaza y Tacubaya: la muerte de la libélula.
1974. February 15. Exposition in Exposición en The B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, EUA: "Rafael Coronel major exhibition". March 15. He received the invitation to participate in the I Bienal Internacional de Pintura Figurativa "The new image of the paint” in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka). Televisa hire him to paint 100 paintings. He delivered 117 but these were destroyed as a consequence of the earthquake in 1985.
1975. May. He donated to the Musem of Modern Art of Mexico City Tacubaya: la muerte de Libélula. He exhibited in The B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, USA. He was invited in the "An Evening the Stars", where he received a diploma.
1976. Ines Amor. Director of the Galery of Mexican Art, was sick so it was difficult to go to the galery and it caused the separation between Rafael and the Galery. He became exclusive painter in Mexico of the Galery Misrachi, S.A.
1977. February 19. June- July. “collective exhibition” Recent Latín American Drawigs (1969- 1976) Lines of vision", sponsored by the International Exhibition Fundation, New York. He participated on the Five Figures Piece.
1978. May 23. Was the tribute to Pedro Coronel and Rafael Coronel in Zacatecas, Zacatecas; organized by the government and the University Festejos de la IX Feria Nacional. Francisco Garcia Salinas declared Mr. Rafael Coronel Arroyo as a distinguished student.
1987. April 20. He participates in the collective exhibition “Mexico Contemporany Art” in the ITESM campus Mexico City.
1988. October 22- December 4. Individual exhibit "II mondo mágico di coronel" en Chiesa di San stae, organized by the Assessorato alla cultura Del comune di Venecia. Collective Exhibition “"primer Festival Deportivo y Cultural Rodrigo Gómez" in the Bank of Mexico
1990. January- July. He traslades to Zacatecas with Jose Antonio Cruz to collaborate with Alfonso Soto Soria and his team in the Montaje del Museo Rafael Coronel. July 5. Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the governor Genaro Borrego Estrada, inaugurated in the San Francisco Convent the “Museo Rafael Coronel”. It has 5000 400 pieces prehispanic Mexican masks, 1500 colonial pottery, 200 puppets Rosete Aranda Company and 100 drawings by Diego Rivera. On August he came back to Cuernavaca.
1991. May 9. Retrospective exhibition at the Mezzanine of the Tower of Petróleos Mexicanos in connection with the book launch Rafael Coronel, edited by PEMEX. Retrospective Exhibition "Painter Rafael Coronel" in the Gallery of the Cultural Complex Tonalli Yoliztli Soot.
1992. Retrospective and part of his collection entitled "Treasures Mestizos Rafael Coronel." Presented at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico.
1993 – The retrospective exhibition at B. Lewin Galleries, Palm Springs, California, In The Palm Springs Desert Museum presents "The Edith and B. Lewin Collection". Where Colonel participates with a score of works, including Time and Seller of antiques.
1994. February 14-April 29. Was a Retrospective exhibition "17 works of Rafael Coronel" in the International Airport "Benito Juarez" in Mexico City. June 7th. He was Member of the Academy of Arts. Retrospective exhibition presented at the Presidency of the Republic.
1996. December 13. He was awarded the "Award Zacatecas 240" by the State Government. The National Council for Culture and the Arts, through the National Coordination of Decentralization, organized the retrospective entitled "Works on Paper Rafael Coronel", composed of 67 pieces, including Dog, Death and Self in New York, i which itineraries all states of the Republic for three years, among other places: August. Was a retrospective exhibition "Rafael Coronel." The Zacatecanos years.
1997. April. Group exhibition "Collection Bernard and Edith Lewin Art Museum of Los Angeles County." Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Coronel introduced Mi abuela, among other works.
1944- First self-portrait.
1951 – Entered into the National Youth Competition in the Mexican branch of visual arts.
1952 to 1920 July. Received an Award of Plastic Arts Competition held by the Instituto Nacional de la juventud Mexicana (National Institute of Mexican Youth), directed by Mariano Ramírez Vázquez. The award was a diploma and a scholarship during a year of three hundred pesos each month.
Twenty awards were given, one of the incentives granted to Robert Doniz.
The paintpresented by Colonel Rafael was ““Mujer de Jerez””, undated; wax on cardboard, 55 X 54 inches.
It was exposed in the gallery José Clemente Orozco (Peralvillo Avenue 55), a dependence from the INBA, the jury was composed by Carlos Orozco Romero, Ricardo Martinez and Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna. As a requirement for him to be awarded the scholarship, he had to enroll into the School of painting and sculpture Esmeralda, where Carlos Orozco Romero was his teacher.
1953- Participated in two exhibitions, one in the Gallery in the Cervantes library, at the Esmeralda Gallery and another in the Excelsior Gallery. Due to disagreements, a year latter he leaved the drawing classes, but he continued attending to the Esmeralda Gallery. Here he met his friend Francis Corzas.
1954-On a recommendation from the Guatemalan painter Carlos Mérida, Rafael Coronel met Ines Amor and entered into the Mexican Art Gallery, Leaved La Esmeralda. This was the last year he lived with his sister Hope Santa Julia.
1955 April, Elvira, the director of the gallery opened Gandara New Generations, INBA decency. Rafael Coronel participated in the inaugural exhibition with a paint titled Clown and outdoors.
1956-May. First solo exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicano.
1957-By this time, Inés Amor takes he as her unique artist. He painted ““La perra negra”” and ““Cabeza de muchacho””.
Mounted, 29 October 1958 his second solo exhibition in the hall of Mexican Plastic, headed Gabriela Orozco. Mixed media on cardboard displays 80. The paint ““La rata en el queso””was adquired by Luis Corzo and Aragon.
June-July He participated in the exhibition Arte de Hoy, at the Galeria de Arte Mexicano. Also participated at the Second Biennial of Art in Mexico with the ““Rata en el basurero””.
June 1959 -5. He presented his first solo exhibition in the Palacio de Bellas Artes; called "portraits". The exhibition was mounted in the Sala verde(today Diego Rivera’s room), at that the Museum of Modern Art. He started dating with Ruth Rivera Marin.
Exhibited at The Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
1960-1930 June-July 26. He participated in the exhibition "Artists of the new wave" in the Gallery CDI. With the work ““Sabado Nocturno””. During September he was a member of the collective exhibition "Retrospective Exhibition" of Mexican Painting "at the Museum of the Ciudad Universitaria. This exhibition was presented because of the Third General Conference by International Association of Universities. He exhibited ““Carnaval”” and ““Azul de la mancha””.
13 -22 October. Individual exhibition at the Gallery of Mexican Art called "Doscientos estudios para una pequeña zoología””.
November 24. He participated in the exhibition-sale of the Sal+on de la Plastica Mexicana, with the work ““Cabeza de Caballo””.
File:Coronel_mjerez_p.jpg|La mujer de Jerez. Año 1952
File:Coronel_azuldelamancha_p.jpg|Azul de la Mancha. Año 1959
File:Coronel_moro_p.jpg| El Moro y el Cristiano. Año 1997.
File:Coronel_lapelona_p.jpg| La Pelona. Año 1973.
File:Coronel_lamortaja_p.jpg| La Mortaja. Año 1996.
File:Coronel_asuntoenredado_p.jpg| Asunto Enredado. Año 1999
File:Teporocho.jpg| Teporocho.
File:Ratas_comiendo_lombriz.jpg| Ratas comiendo lombriz
File:La_vieja_del_ganso.jpg| La vieja del ganzo
File:Rafael_Coronel.jpg| Rafael Coronel
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Mexican art
Mexican art consists of the various visual and plastic arts which developed over the geographical area now known as Mexico. The development of these arts roughly follow the history of Mexico, divided into the Mesoamerican era, the colonial period, with the period after the gaining of Independence...
. He was the son-in-law of Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
. His representational paintings have a melancholic sobriety, and include faces from the past great masters, often floating in a diffuse haze.
There are some paintings of his own in Mexico
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...
and in other countries. In what was the convent of San Francisco De Almoloyan y De Asis (Building from the XVI Century), located in Zacatecas
Zacatecas
Zacatecas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas....
, there is a museum named after him; in this museum, his vast mask colection is shown.
First years
Baby brother of Pedro Coronel, Rafael felt artistic inclinations since he was really young. He studed in La Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda, and he quickly developed a unique artistic vocabulary. His paintings are about popular themes, even though, we can not say that his pieces are from the spontaneous things.The vocation of being a painter was something hereditary for Rafael. His grandfather used to decorate churches, hi used to paint the decorations all over the walls of the churches. When his father told him that pedro, his brother, was studying to become a painter in Mexico city, he though it was one of the gratests wastes of time ever, because they got no money from painting, even the greatest painters in Mexico had to appeal to other jobs.
Youth
Rafael wasn´t the teenager that dreamed to become a soccer player anymore, although he always liked to draw he tought that "The art gave no money to eat, that painting was a omplement for other jobs". He didn´t even know that there were some professional painters.When Rafael went to Mexico city he wanted to be a soccer player, a player for the América, but he promissed he would study to become a counter. When he arrived to the D.F., he started to like architecture. In 1952 he won a painting contest. The piece that gave him the victory was the Mujer De Jerez, a piece of art done with crayons, since he had no money to buy better things. he won a scholarship of 300 pesos a month. After winning the contest he stated:"I betrayed my father, but I´ve done goods for the country".
For the scholarship to be effective, he had to study in some painting school, so he decided to enter to "La Esmeralda", two months later he was expelled for disobeying the teachers.
The intentions of Rafael during that time was to show the latinoamerican people without garnishing them like Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
, Siqueiros Banderas, or like José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others...
. When you leave the apinting alone, the human figure reaches it´s climax point, to the purest representation of the human being, like the paintings of Rembrandt.
Coronel became a lonely man, in 1969 his wife Ruth died, son of Diego Rivera and Lupe Marín, and mother of his only son, Juan Coronel. He has had some girlfriends, and he has traveled around the orld next to them. Traveling helps him to "Clear his vision about Mexico and makes my painting instincts, and makes me be about in front of the canvas with my brush, painting and painting".
He wasn´t doing his weekly parties where half Mexico accuded to.
Lather years
Rafael Worked 20 years in his uncle´s workshop, he said that he has made his biggest jobs there. He lived in the city of Cuernavaca since the year 1981.Rafael worked for twenty years in the studio of his father, says there made the largest plastic production has been achieved. Since 1981 lives in the city of Cuernavaca, in a house surrounded by a wall full of graffiti that appears to protect a vacant lot.
On the occasion of his 80th birthday in September 2011 Fine Arts opened in "retro-futuristic", an exhibition of 109 works that Raphael created 18 that year. These works break with earlier work by Colonel, because "in the same figuration, there are some characters decrepit. The interesting thing is that it puts the focus on the end of life of women and men in old age is different because we were used to see old age redeemed; in these tables, the present old age as decline, never explored that part, "said Juan Coronel Rivera, the son of the artist.
All stages in the creative life are represented in retrofuturism Colonel, not just the time when performing works closely related to Spanish painting, as most of the audience remembers. In the sample there are also sculptures, drawings and works that have never been exhibited. Retrofuturism also presented at the Museo Rafael Coronel in Zacatecas and Monterrey MARCO.
Museum "Rafael Coronel"
The convent of San Francisco was the first to be founded in the province of Zacatecas in the year 1567, built as his temple. On December 7, 1648 the Temple was burned, and the March 5, 1949 started reconstruction.Its rooms preserves a collection of more than 16 000 pieces, including masks, drawings, pots, terracotta, Prehispanic objects, puppets, votive offerings, pictures, crafts, musical instruments and colonial furniture. His collection of masks is considered the largest in the world. It also has a collection of works by Diego Rivera, among which is the study of child self-portrait of Diego's mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, work is on permanent display at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera in the city of Mexico.
The museum shows an exhibition that includes topics such as masks, the devil, Lent, Easter, Easter, the old dance, deer dance, animals, etc.. These masks are works of the artist. However most of the exhibits displayed in the museum collections show that he had, as is the pot room, where many pre-Hispanic figures are shown in a wide exposure. In the shoot-Rosette room displays a collection of puppets from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Curriculum
1967. January 9. He shows in The Gallery of Modern Art, Phoenix, Arizona, USA He exhibit “Mi abuela”. He also collaborates in the “kalikosmia” exhibition in where he presented abstract sculptures made in plastic. This was showed in the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico.1968. February 12-March 2. He exhibits in the Galery of Mexican Art “Rafael Coronel 20 óleos y 100 dibujos del viaje número 13". The exhibition was sponsored by the comitte that organized the Olympics games in Mexico. He exhibited the familiar portrait and the brothers and inside the drawings Naked of a girl and Man Back in june on “Rafael Coronel Oleos”. Exhibition in the Galery of Mexican Art September 9-30. He exhibits "Oleos de Rafael Coronel" in the Galery of Mexican Art. October. He participated on october 4 in La Bendicion. The Mexican-Israeli cultural institute gave him a degree of constancy about the 10 trees that were planted in his name.
1969. September 8. He received from the governor of Zacatecas, Ruiz González, él "Racimo de Oro" gave by the Vitivinícola of Vergel, S.A Company because of his merit as a Zacatecan artista on october 27.
1970. November 13- December 9. He exhibits in The Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, “Botero, Coronel, Rodon”.
1972. April 24-May 20. He exhibited in the Galery of Mexican Art "Rafael Coronel 45 nuevas pinturas". September 10-26 he exhibited in the ex temple of San Agustin in Zacatecas in the collective exhibition “5 Zacatecas painters” (Pedro Coronel, Manuel Felguerez, Rafael Coronel, Francisco de Santiago, José de Santiago).
1973. May 9- July 15. He exhibited La rata en el queso 2, Madrugada en la Merced 1, Santa Martha Acatitla: Lourdes; la rata verde, la rata en la mostaza y Tacubaya: la muerte de la libélula.
1974. February 15. Exposition in Exposición en The B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, EUA: "Rafael Coronel major exhibition". March 15. He received the invitation to participate in the I Bienal Internacional de Pintura Figurativa "The new image of the paint” in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka). Televisa hire him to paint 100 paintings. He delivered 117 but these were destroyed as a consequence of the earthquake in 1985.
1975. May. He donated to the Musem of Modern Art of Mexico City Tacubaya: la muerte de Libélula. He exhibited in The B. Lewin Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, USA. He was invited in the "An Evening the Stars", where he received a diploma.
1976. Ines Amor. Director of the Galery of Mexican Art, was sick so it was difficult to go to the galery and it caused the separation between Rafael and the Galery. He became exclusive painter in Mexico of the Galery Misrachi, S.A.
1977. February 19. June- July. “collective exhibition” Recent Latín American Drawigs (1969- 1976) Lines of vision", sponsored by the International Exhibition Fundation, New York. He participated on the Five Figures Piece.
1978. May 23. Was the tribute to Pedro Coronel and Rafael Coronel in Zacatecas, Zacatecas; organized by the government and the University Festejos de la IX Feria Nacional. Francisco Garcia Salinas declared Mr. Rafael Coronel Arroyo as a distinguished student.
1987. April 20. He participates in the collective exhibition “Mexico Contemporany Art” in the ITESM campus Mexico City.
1988. October 22- December 4. Individual exhibit "II mondo mágico di coronel" en Chiesa di San stae, organized by the Assessorato alla cultura Del comune di Venecia. Collective Exhibition “"primer Festival Deportivo y Cultural Rodrigo Gómez" in the Bank of Mexico
1990. January- July. He traslades to Zacatecas with Jose Antonio Cruz to collaborate with Alfonso Soto Soria and his team in the Montaje del Museo Rafael Coronel. July 5. Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the governor Genaro Borrego Estrada, inaugurated in the San Francisco Convent the “Museo Rafael Coronel”. It has 5000 400 pieces prehispanic Mexican masks, 1500 colonial pottery, 200 puppets Rosete Aranda Company and 100 drawings by Diego Rivera. On August he came back to Cuernavaca.
1991. May 9. Retrospective exhibition at the Mezzanine of the Tower of Petróleos Mexicanos in connection with the book launch Rafael Coronel, edited by PEMEX. Retrospective Exhibition "Painter Rafael Coronel" in the Gallery of the Cultural Complex Tonalli Yoliztli Soot.
1992. Retrospective and part of his collection entitled "Treasures Mestizos Rafael Coronel." Presented at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico.
1993 – The retrospective exhibition at B. Lewin Galleries, Palm Springs, California, In The Palm Springs Desert Museum presents "The Edith and B. Lewin Collection". Where Colonel participates with a score of works, including Time and Seller of antiques.
1994. February 14-April 29. Was a Retrospective exhibition "17 works of Rafael Coronel" in the International Airport "Benito Juarez" in Mexico City. June 7th. He was Member of the Academy of Arts. Retrospective exhibition presented at the Presidency of the Republic.
1996. December 13. He was awarded the "Award Zacatecas 240" by the State Government. The National Council for Culture and the Arts, through the National Coordination of Decentralization, organized the retrospective entitled "Works on Paper Rafael Coronel", composed of 67 pieces, including Dog, Death and Self in New York, i which itineraries all states of the Republic for three years, among other places: August. Was a retrospective exhibition "Rafael Coronel." The Zacatecanos years.
1997. April. Group exhibition "Collection Bernard and Edith Lewin Art Museum of Los Angeles County." Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Coronel introduced Mi abuela, among other works.
His Work
He had exposed in diferent places:- Bienal de San Paulo, Brasil
- Castello Sforsesco en Milán, Italia,
- Museo real de Arte de Bruselas, Bélgica,
- The Contemporaries, en Nueva York, EUA
- The Museum of Modern Art en Nueva York, EUA
- Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes en México, Mex.
- Museo de Arte Moderno, México, Mex.
Critics
Recognized people had talk about his painting, some examples are:- Salvador Elizondo
- Carlos Monsiváis
- Fernando Gamboa
- Fernando Benítez
- Luis Cardoza y Aragón
- Agustín Arteaga
- Luis Carlos Emerich
- Juan Coronel Rivera
- Josephine Siller
- Sergio Pitol
- Ramon Xirau
- Salvador Elizondo
- Rafael Tovar
- Socorro Díaz
Awards
The most important are:- 1965VIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brasil, en la que obtiene el Premio Córdoba al Mejor Pintor Joven Latinoamericano
- 1952 recibe el Premio de Artes Plásticas del Instituto Nacional de la Juventud Mexicana
- 1974 Japón: I Bienal Internacional de Pintura Figurativa en Tokio y Osaka.
- 1978, junto con su hermano Pedro Coronel, es declarado Hijo Predilecto por el Gobierno del Estado y la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.
First years
1937 -First drawings.1944- First self-portrait.
1951 – Entered into the National Youth Competition in the Mexican branch of visual arts.
1952 to 1920 July. Received an Award of Plastic Arts Competition held by the Instituto Nacional de la juventud Mexicana (National Institute of Mexican Youth), directed by Mariano Ramírez Vázquez. The award was a diploma and a scholarship during a year of three hundred pesos each month.
Twenty awards were given, one of the incentives granted to Robert Doniz.
The paintpresented by Colonel Rafael was ““Mujer de Jerez””, undated; wax on cardboard, 55 X 54 inches.
It was exposed in the gallery José Clemente Orozco (Peralvillo Avenue 55), a dependence from the INBA, the jury was composed by Carlos Orozco Romero, Ricardo Martinez and Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna. As a requirement for him to be awarded the scholarship, he had to enroll into the School of painting and sculpture Esmeralda, where Carlos Orozco Romero was his teacher.
1953- Participated in two exhibitions, one in the Gallery in the Cervantes library, at the Esmeralda Gallery and another in the Excelsior Gallery. Due to disagreements, a year latter he leaved the drawing classes, but he continued attending to the Esmeralda Gallery. Here he met his friend Francis Corzas.
1954-On a recommendation from the Guatemalan painter Carlos Mérida, Rafael Coronel met Ines Amor and entered into the Mexican Art Gallery, Leaved La Esmeralda. This was the last year he lived with his sister Hope Santa Julia.
1955 April, Elvira, the director of the gallery opened Gandara New Generations, INBA decency. Rafael Coronel participated in the inaugural exhibition with a paint titled Clown and outdoors.
1956-May. First solo exhibition at the Galería de Arte Mexicano.
1957-By this time, Inés Amor takes he as her unique artist. He painted ““La perra negra”” and ““Cabeza de muchacho””.
Mounted, 29 October 1958 his second solo exhibition in the hall of Mexican Plastic, headed Gabriela Orozco. Mixed media on cardboard displays 80. The paint ““La rata en el queso””was adquired by Luis Corzo and Aragon.
June-July He participated in the exhibition Arte de Hoy, at the Galeria de Arte Mexicano. Also participated at the Second Biennial of Art in Mexico with the ““Rata en el basurero””.
June 1959 -5. He presented his first solo exhibition in the Palacio de Bellas Artes; called "portraits". The exhibition was mounted in the Sala verde(today Diego Rivera’s room), at that the Museum of Modern Art. He started dating with Ruth Rivera Marin.
Exhibited at The Forsythe Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
1960-1930 June-July 26. He participated in the exhibition "Artists of the new wave" in the Gallery CDI. With the work ““Sabado Nocturno””. During September he was a member of the collective exhibition "Retrospective Exhibition" of Mexican Painting "at the Museum of the Ciudad Universitaria. This exhibition was presented because of the Third General Conference by International Association of Universities. He exhibited ““Carnaval”” and ““Azul de la mancha””.
13 -22 October. Individual exhibition at the Gallery of Mexican Art called "Doscientos estudios para una pequeña zoología””.
November 24. He participated in the exhibition-sale of the Sal+on de la Plastica Mexicana, with the work ““Cabeza de Caballo””.
Gallery
File:Coronel_mjerez_p.jpg|La mujer de Jerez. Año 1952
File:Coronel_azuldelamancha_p.jpg|Azul de la Mancha. Año 1959
File:Coronel_moro_p.jpg| El Moro y el Cristiano. Año 1997.
File:Coronel_lapelona_p.jpg| La Pelona. Año 1973.
File:Coronel_lamortaja_p.jpg| La Mortaja. Año 1996.
File:Coronel_asuntoenredado_p.jpg| Asunto Enredado. Año 1999
File:Teporocho.jpg| Teporocho.
File:Ratas_comiendo_lombriz.jpg| Ratas comiendo lombriz
File:La_vieja_del_ganso.jpg| La vieja del ganzo
File:Rafael_Coronel.jpg| Rafael Coronel
See also
- Rafael Coronel Site and Curriculum
- Pedro CoronelPedro CoronelPedro Coronel Arroyo was a Mexican abstract painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and engraver.-Biography:...
, his elder brother, also an accomplished painter and sculptor - José Luis CuevasJose Luis CuevasJosé Luis Cuevas is a modernist painter and sculptor from Mexico. Born in 1934, Cuevas derived most of his training outside of the academies. He is considered to be one of the artists from the 1950s in the Rupture Generation that was departing from the politicized and stylized mural school of...
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