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JORGE CÁZARES CAMPOS

Born November 20, 1937 in Cuernavaca, Morelos. Mexico. He studied at the Regional Institute of Fine Arts in Cuernavaca.

WORKS IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS:

• Portraits of Famous Men of Morelos. Councils Hall of the Palacio Municipal de Cuernavaca, Morelos. (1965) • Portraits of presidents, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos. (1967) • Portrait of General José María Morelos y Pavón. Congress Hall, Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Morelos. (1968) • Portrait of Mr. Benito Juárez. Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado de Morelos. (1968) Portrait of General Emiliano Zapata. Presidential House, Los Pinos, Mexico, D.F. (1971) • Landscape Guelatao, Oaxaca (Commemoration of the year in Juarez). Presidential Residence "Los Pinos, Mexico. D.F. (1972) • Four Landscapes Mexican Embassy of Mexico in Spain. Madrid, Spain (1982) Landscape of the Valley of Tepoztlan, Morelos. Embassy of Mexico in France. Paris, France. • Landscape "La Valenciana" in Guanajuato. Embassy of Mexico in Australia, Sydney Australia. (1982) • Landscape "Tenango Cañada, Morelos. Mexican Delegation to the United Nations, New York, USA (1982) • Landscape of the archaeological zone of Xochicalco, Morelos. Official home of the Governor of Morelos, (1998) • Mural of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, Governors Hall, Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Morelos. (2005)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS:

• Over 200 exhibitions in Mexico, Europe, USA, Australia and South America. • Baccalaureate Professor, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos. (1960 to 1973) • Director of the Sculpture Garden of Cuernavaca, Morelos. (1962-1963, 1964-1966) • Founding member of the Museum of Modern Art in Chilpancingo, Gro. Mexico. (1969) • Founder and director of the Plastics Hall of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos. (1968-1971) • Grant from the Great Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, to tour Europe in the work plan and study the arts. (1973) • Founding member of the Institute of Culture of Morelos. (1988) • Chairman of the Municipal Committee of Culture of the City of Cuernavaca. (1990-1992) • Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Culture of Morelos. (from 1995) • Awarded with the medal "José María Morelos y Pavón" granted to citizens of excellence by the State Government.

SOME RELEVANT CRITICISMS:

Roberto Montenegro.

In Cazares Campos, our hopes are encrypted within the contemporary domestic landscape. Faithful follower of Velasco, shows in his maturity and mastery of drawing and color of a very personal way. Mexico, April 5, 1967.

Jose Revueltas

"Painting is one way of uniting the senses and transform them. Cazares Campos, the moves and makes them live as a separate fact, their eyes are the lidless eyes of sleepless artist. " September 1967

Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna

Cazares is a landscaper who follow the guidelines of the art for themselves. His vision of the phenomenon of nature and man, that make up the face of what exists and has existed in the world, makes his feelings and memories lived intensely, in a work that already exists by itself, and that notwithstanding reflects the very essence of a human being who has managed to absorb and take for itself with the things that define what we know as panorama or detailed annotation of the poetic experience that contributes to personal transformation of painting, fine and unblemished that enlivens all the grounds with a new life in a vibrating voice neorealism and essences of a craft and tested. Mexico, December 2, 1974

Jorge Cazares: A value set. Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna.

The Italians and the Flemish Renaissance used the landscape as "atmosphere" that would wrap around her scenes and most of all, at the "bottom". Much later the 'off' the main theme as Giorgione, such summits. But the father of landscape theme is Patinir (sixteenth century), quoted with praise by Durer. Rubens excels himself on this issue, so Rembrandt. What's on the figure, still lifes, etc.? Herbert Read is inclined to give the landscape classification of Romantic art, art of poetry. And in that sentence is enclosed completely free quality that has always distinguished.

Cazares has the character of a true poet, his coloring is very refined and finesse. I find the breath vast and ambitious flagship landscape painters: Le Poussin and Claude Lorrain, but its delicate hues and transparencies, as well as incisive as the lines of fields, mountains, villages and skies, come very close to Corot and the precursors of Impressionism Constable and Turner. Never deviates from nature. His work is based on studies to open full and round in the study. Ojala be known better. I think it's already a value set. Mexico, 1974

Cazares: Disciple of Velasco Antonio Rodriguez

The landscape, in Mexico in the late nineteenth century, is the way to affirm and emphasize the cult of its own that the Cologne, at least in the realm of painting, had not wanted or been able to inspire.

It is moved by this attempt to delineate the profile of the country and incite love that Jose Maria Velasco, followed by artists such as Luis Coto, Gregory Dumaine, Salvador Murillo and others, increased landscaping, painting, creating a high degree of art.

Jorge Cazares is in this respect, the master of Temazcalcingo, recreating, with love and nobility of a job well cultivated, the various aspects of the geography of Mexico from the highlands to the coast, worrying both to offer an artistic vision of major cities and villages of the country as the archaeological ruins of the ancient pre-Hispanic cities.

Commendable for the sake of giving us a pleasant and friendly image of the vast and varied territory of the country, the efforts of Jorge Cazares is, also, by the high quality of his work. It has been said of this artist-and he said it with authority maestro Roberto Montenegro, which is him "a faithful follower of José María Velasco.

Indeed, if we see, for example, "Llanos de Apan" by Jorge Cazares, we are forced to recognize that the extension of the landscape recreated the just separation of the planes, the transparency of the atmosphere and the ability to achieve the distance by the exact tone handling, falls, this table, among the finest works of those who are inspired, creatively, in the painting of Velasco.

That is why, for the ability to turn the art of painting in poetry instead of calling to hunt, "Velasco faithful follower of" what we consider one of the best pupils that the teacher of the Valley of Mexico has now, in our country.

I believe, as Crespo de la Serna, who by their unquestionable value, this fine artist must be more widely known. February 1986.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Museum of Modern Art. University of the State of Guerrero, Mexico, 1969 • The Mexican Landscape. Collection of Licio Lagos. Mexico, D.F. 1971 • Landscape of Mexico. Ministry of Communications and Transport. Mexico, D.F. 1972 • Plastic Artists of Mexico. G.D.A. Editions Mexico, D.F. 1975, 1977, 1981 • Gallery of Mexican classics. The cigarette company SA Central Mexico, D.F. 1976 • Dictionary of Artists. Thieme-Becker-Kunstlerexikon. Leipzig, Germany 1976 • Cazares (Portfolio of lithographs). The cigarette company SA Central Mexico, D.F. 1976 • Dictionary encyclopedic bibliographic Mexican painting. Editorial 500 years. 1980 • Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors of Mexico. Mexico trade and export catalog. 1992 • Jorge Cazares Campos. Government of the State of Morelos. IUMS. 1992 • Compendium of Arts of Morelos. Mexico. 1994 • Catalogs Annual Painting and Sculpture. Group of Sixteen A.C. 1980-1990 • Actors of Culture in Morelos. Nadia Piemonte. Grafiarte. 1995 • Anthology mexiquense landscape. Mexico State Institute of Culture. Toluca, Mexico, 1995 • Jorge Cazares, The Picture of the earth. 1999 • Views and concepts: approaches to the landscape. National Council for Culture and the Arts, National Fine Arts Institute. 1999