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Portrait with Artist Hector Duarte
Event: Studio Visit as part of Open House Chicago 2017
Date: October 14, 2017.
Location: At Artists’s Home-Studio in Pilsen.
Image courtesy: Selfie
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Hector Duarte is a well known artist muralist in Chicago and his native Michoacán, Mexico. He was born in 1952 in Caurio, Michoacán, Mexico. In 1977, he studied mural painting at the workshop of David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the giants of Mexican muralism. He moved to Chicago in 1985. He has created more than 50 murals that can be seen in schools libraries, transit stops and neighborhoods throughout Chicagoland area and beyond. His paintings and prints have been exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the State of Illinois Gallery, the Chicago Historical Society and Casa Estudio Museo Diego Rivera in Mexico City.
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“My murals are for message. I paint for message, not for decoration.”
– Hector Duarte.
Duarte’s artwork deal with themes of identity, immigration and freedom.
Although his murals are about hardships and struggles, they have a positive feel of breaking free.
Here is more on my visit to artist studio on October 14, 2017.. click here..
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