LUPINA LARA ELIZONDO
Lupina Lara Elizondo is the author of twelve books on Mexican painting, and the founder and writer of Resumen, Pintores y Pintura Mexicana, a series of 96 issues to date that have provided information on more than 190 Mexican painters. The series—a project that Lara has promoted with great passion—is considered to be one of the most complete written accounts of Mexican art. The magazine has saved outstanding painters and sculptors from the oblivion of history, and has also opened its doors to the new qualities of Mexico’s contemporary art. This integral view of Mexican art shows the value of Lara’s publications.
Lara has a business degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. She studied painting for five years with private teachers, developing a profound appreciation and understanding of the visual arts. She added to her knowledge by taking courses abroad on the philosophy of art, history of art, and Mexican painting and sculpture. In addition to offering conferences on art, Lara has been an art dealer since 1985. From 1996 to 2001, while serving as the curator and head of museography at Club de Banqueros de México, Lara presented 33 exhibitions of painting and the applied arts.
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Club de Banqueros de México, presentando 33 exposiciones sobre pintura y artes aplicadas.
* In 1995, Lara founded Promoción de Arte Mexicano, S.A. de C.V., and began publishing the magazine, Resumen, Pintores y Pintura Mexicana. During the thirteen years of the magazine’s existence, it has become known throughout Mexico and abroad, often serving as an introduction to Mexican art.
* In 1997, Lupina Lara published a monograph on the well-known painter from Michoacan, Alfredo Zalce. Entitled Noventa Años: Recuerdos de una Vida, Trabajos de un Pintor, the book was sponsored by the Mexican corporation, Teléfonos de México.
* In 1998, Lara focused on the work of Raúl Anguiano and the journal he had kept while on the 1949 expedition to explore the ruins of Bonampak. Anguiano’s writings, enriched by Lara’s description of his career as an artist, photographs of the expedition, and important paintings from the times, were published in Journal of an Expedition to the Lacandon Jungle, 1949. The project was sponsored by Quálitas Compañía de Seguros, S.A. de C.V.. |
* One year later, Lara began work on the series entitled Visión de México y sus Artistas, consisting of five volumes on Mexican painting, from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The publication is bilingual and is available outside of Mexico.
* In 2005, Lara started a new series: Mexican Masters Opposite European Masters. The first volume in the series, The Influence of Picasso in Mexico: Eight Painters (1900-1950), makes a transversal cut through time to describe the encounters of Angel Zárraga, Diego Rivera, Carlos Mérida, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Rufino Tamayo, Alfonso Michel and Francisco Gutiérrez with the birth of modern art, and in particular with the paradigmatic figure of Pablo Picasso. The book’s in-depth biography of the Spanish artist reveals the turbulence of his life.
* In 2006, Lara wrote about Expressionism in landscape painting, specifically about Van Gogh in comparison with two Mexican landscapists, Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo) and Pablo O’Higgins. The novel structure of the book provides readers with an interesting perspective of the similarities and differences in the featured work, while attaining Lara’s overall goal: to invite readers to review the substance of painting over time. |
