dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: spanisch (spa/es)
akteur: Mérida (Cules), Carlos
biografische angaben: * 2 de diciembre 1891 en Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; † 22 de diciembre 1984 en la ciudad de México. Pintor, litografo y muralista guatemalteco-mexicano. Junto con Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco y David Alfaro Siqueiros fundó el Sindicato de Obreros, Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores. Varios murales en Guatemala y México. En 1965 recibió la medalla de oro de la Dirección General de Cultura y Bellas Artes de Guatemala, y en 1980 "Orden del Águila Azteca" de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México.


Carlos Merida, Guatemalan (born 1893), followed the fashion with the rest of them [members of the Sindicato Revolucionario de Obreros Técnicos y Plásticos], though by temperament and inclination he was attracted to abstract art. He had been pupil of Van Dongen and Anglada Camarasa. While the fresco movement was all-powerful, he painted a fairy-tale mural on the walls of a children's library, then returned to Europe to continue his studies in nonobjective art. He resides in Mexico now [1963] and devotes hinself almost exclusively to surrealistic and abstract painting, doing work that ist sensitive, delicate, a trifle precious, rich, warm and «tropical» in color, «folkloric» in its occasionally hinted representative elements.