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4 unusual facts about Vicente Rojo


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Contemporary to the so-called “Rupture’s Generation” (represented by Manuel Felguérez, Vicente Rojo, Lilia Carrillo and Alberto Gironella among others) but closer, by affinity and coexistence, to the exiled European artists living in Mexico, like Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Vlady, Mathias Goeritz, Francisco Moreno Capdevilla and Benito Messeger.

Museo de Arte Moderno

The museum also hosts a permanent collection of art from Gelsen Gas, Frida Kahlo, Olga Costa, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Leonora Carrington, Rufino Tamayo, Juan Soriano, and Vicente Rojo.

Vicente Rojo

Vicente Rojo Lluch, Republican army officer during the Spanish Civil War

War in the North

Then Franco, decided to start a new offensive against Madrid, but Vicente Rojo, the leader of the Republican Army, launched a diversionary offensive in Aragon, the Battle of Teruel.


Generación de la Ruptura

Of the foreign born Ruptura painters, the most important was Vicente Rojo from Cataluña who reshaped Mexican graphic arts.


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Generación de la Ruptura

Prominent members of the movement include José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo Almazan, Roger von Gunten, Alberto Gironella, Vlady, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, Pedro Coronel, Enrique Echeverria, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Brian Nissen, Gabriel Ramirez, Kazuya Sakai and Gustavo Arias Murueta.