movement death_date birth_place training nationality patrons field birth_date works article_title name
abstract figurativism 27 october 2009 mixquiahuala , hidalgo , mexico academia de san carlos , mexico city , mexico mexican eva beloglovsky painting/sculpture 1941 david mexico ben-gurion cultural park in pachuca , hidalgo , byron galvez
 byron galvez
byron galvez

byron gálvez -lrb- b. october 28 , 1941 - d. october 27 , 2009 -rrb- was a mexican artist who was primarily known for his painting but also created sculpture , including monumental works .
he was born in rural hidalgo state , to a father who played jazz music and read literature , a rarity in 1930s rural mexico .
however , it exposed gálvez to culture , even though this led to an interest in visual art rather than musing or writing .
he went to mexico city to study art at both the undergraduate and graduate level , but never completed his degrees , opting instead to begin career after his coursework .
before his first individual exhibition , his work was criticized by justino fernández , but all of the paintings were sold in advance to foreign buyers including american actor vincent price , who called gálvez a `` mexican picasso . ''
gálvez then managed to replace the forty five paintings for the exhibition in a week .
since then he had individual and collective exhibitions in mexico , the united states and other parts of the world .
he concentrated on painting , which he is better known for , in the 1970s and 1980s , but moved onto sculpture , including monumental works later in his career .
recognitions for gálvez 's work include membership in the salón de la plástica mexicana , a retrospective at the palacio de bellas artes and two books published about his life .
