Jorge Chávez Carrillo

Major retrospective on artistic leader in muralism and vanguard art in Colima. Painter Chávez Carrillo (Colima, Mexico 1921) has been the teacher of numerous generations of artists has also made numerous exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. His first mural called "Independent Mexico", he painted in the Government Palace of Colima, in 1953. Chavez Carrillo founded in 1956 the School of Arts of the Government of the State of Colima and from 1962 became part of the University of Colima where he became director of the School and permanent advisor of visual artists in Colima. Some of its murals are located in the Municipal Presidency of Villa de Álvarez, Gregorio Torres Quintero Elementary and the Playa de Oro International Airport in Manzanillo.