Armando Villagran, Mexican (1945 - )

Born in 1945 in Mexico City and died in 1995, Villagrán was a self-taught artist, a painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. Villagrán has been considered by the art critics of Mexico as a poetic visual artist; his work has been compared to Paul Klee’s, especially in form, line and color. Villagran is one of the artists who tried to create a universal expression out of regionalisms or ethnicisms.