The Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (SPM) is an art museum of plastic arts, which was founded by a group of notable artists on November 16, 1949. Today the SPM is located in the Calle de Colima 196 in the Colonia Roma and in the Donceles 99 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. The autonomous museum is supported administratively by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).

Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff

Angelina Beloff was a Russian painter and sculptor, who worked predominantly in Mexico.- Biography :Beloff originally decided to study pediatrics, but then she matriculated to St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1904, where she studied until 1909...

 is deemed to be the main founder of the SPM, but the initial idea in 1947 apparently came from Fernando Gamboa and Carlos Chávez

Carlos Chávez

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. Today the SPM counts more than 200 members.

Further founding members were Ignacio Aguirre

Ignacio Aguirre

Ignacio Aguirre was a Mexican painter and engraver.- Biography :Aguirre fought under Venustiano Carranza against Pancho Villa during the revolution from 1915 to 1917. Afterwards he worked as a sorter in several mines, and then he participated in the uprising of 1920, in favor of Álvaro Obregón...

, Luis Arenal, Celia Calderón, José Chávez Morado

José Chávez Morado

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, Lola Cueto

Lola Cueto

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, Francisco Dosamantes, Jorge González Camarena

Jorge González Camarena

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, Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

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, Leopoldo Méndez, Gustavo Montoya Nefero, Pablo O'Higgins

Pablo O'Higgins

Pablo Esteban O'Higgins was an American-Mexican artist, muralist and illustrator....

, Feliciano Peña

Feliciano Peña

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, Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Antonio M. Ruíz

Antonio M. Ruíz

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, Cordelia Urueta, Alfredo Zalce, David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

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, Dr. Atl

Dr. Atl

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, Alberto Beltrán, Federico Cantú Garza, Erasto Cortés Juárez, Germán Cueto

Germán Cueto

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, Jesús Escobedo, Jesús Guerrero Galván

Jesús Guerrero Galván

-Biography:Guerrero Galván was born in Tonalá, Jalisco, in 1910. He studied at the San Antonio Art School in Texas and in 1928 he moved to Guadalajara, where he made his first mural, to study at the Escuela de Pintura Libre. He lived in Mexico City in the 1930s and became quite known for his...

, Agustín Lazo, Carlos Mérida

Carlos Merida

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, Francisco Mora

Francisco Mora

Francisco Mora was born in 1922 in the central-western state of Michoacán His father was a weaver, musician, and Mexican artist. In 1941, Mora relocated to Mexico City where he began exhibiting with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a communal graphics workshop founded by artists Leopold Méndez, Pablo...

, Luis Nishizawa

Luis Nishizawa

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, Carlos Orozco Romero

Carlos Orozco Romero

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, Fanny Rabel

Fanny Rabel

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, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano

Manuel Rodríguez Lozano

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, Juan Soriano

Juan Soriano

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, Héctor Xavier, Raúl Anguiano

Raúl Anguiano

José Raúl Anguiano Valadez was a Mexican critical realist painter, draftsman, muralist, and engraver, as well as a member of the second generation of the so-called "Mexican School of Painting" in Mexican art, along with Juan O'Gorman, Judith Gutierrez, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado,...

, Abelardo Dávila, Ángel Bracho, Fernando Castro Pacheco

Fernando Castro Pacheco

Fernando Castro Pacheco is a Mexican painter, engraver, illustrator, print maker and teacher. As well as being known for traditional artistic forms, Castro Pacheco illustrated several children’s books and produced works in sculpture. He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit...

, Olga Costa

Olga Costa

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, Gonzalo de la Paz Pérez, Arturo García Bustos

Arturo Garcia Bustos

Arturo García Bustos is a Mexican painter.-Biography:Arturo García Bustos was born in Mexico City, near the Zócalo. The cultural and political environment fasicinated the youthful Bustos, as he is called by friends and family, and influenced greatly his artistic development...

, Xavier Guerrero, Amador Lugo

Amador Lugo Guadarrama

Amador Lugo Guadarrama was a Mexican painter and engraver.- Biography :Lugo studied at the open-air painting school of Taxco, which was led by Tamiji Kitagawa at this time...

, Guillermo Meza

Guillermo Meza

Guillermo Ademir Meza Moreno was a Mexican soccer defender. He played with Pumas Morelos of Mexico's second division.-Career:Meza began his career in 2002 with UNAM Pumas and joined Pumas Morelos in 2007...

, Nicolás Moreno

Nicolás Moreno

Nicolás Moreno is a former Argentine footballer currently played in clubs of Argentina and Chile.-Teams: Banfield 1944-1954 Green Cross 1955-1957 Santiago Wanderers 1958-1962...

, Juan O'Gorman

Juan O'Gorman

Juan O'Gorman was a Mexican painter and architect.-Biography:O'Gorman was born in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal District, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O'Gorman and a Mexican mother...

, Luis Ortiz Monasterio

Luis Ortiz Monasterio

Luis Ortiz Monasterio was a Mexican sculptor. He was founding member of the Academia de Artes in 1968.- Biography :...

, Everado Ramírez, 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...

, Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....

 and Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin.

External links

• Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (Spanish)