Ignacio Asunsolo

Ignacio Asúnsolo (Durango, March 15, 1890-Mexico City, December 21, 1965) was a Mexican sculptor.

Life

He was born on the Hacienda de San Juan Bautista. Shortly after he was born, his family settled in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. He began modeling in clay at the age of six, imitating his mother, who did it with skill and pleasure. He enters the Conciliar Seminary. In 1904 he took sculpture classes with the Italian Pellegrini, in the city of Chihuahua. She entered the National School of Fine Arts in 1908. She continued her studies from 1919 at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon his return to Mexico in 1921 he began a productive career as a teacher and artist, applying academic naturalism to nationalist-inspired official public monuments such as the Paternity Monument (1924, Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Historia).. His most ambitious works related to the Revolution are the Monument to Obregón (1933, Mexico City, Av. Insurgentes), La Familia Proletaria (1934, Mexico City, National Polytechnic Institute), and the Monument to Francisco Villa (1957, Chihuahua, Av. División del Norte). Asúnsolo sculpted the statuette called Ariel, with which the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences annually awards the Ariel Award in recognition of the best of the Mexican film industry; it was inspired by the book of the same name written by José Enrique Rodó and the play The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. It also dealt with other themes, such as female nudes and portraits, sometimes in wood or bronze, which contain references to pre-Columbian art. In essence he was an artist who resisted change, an intelligent and brilliant traditionalist.

Works

• CERA
  • Portrait of Justo Sierra bust (1945)
• BARRO
  • Sentenced Figure
  • Boceto for the monument to the Northern Division equestrian figure (1956) Chihuahua, Chihua
• PLASTILINA
  • Boceto for the monument to Fray Juan de Zumárraga figure (1949) Villa de Guadalupe
  • Boceto for the monument to the mother figure Hermosillo, Sonora
• PIEDRA
  • The Proletarian Family (1934)
  • He'll speak to the centuries. figure (1960)
  • Mexican India head
• BRONCE
  • Portrait of the sculptor German Cueto (1923)
  • Portrait of Guadalupe Marin (1930)
  • Portrait of Alberto J. Pani (1933)
  • Child otomi (1936)
  • Tragedy of the Otomi Indian (1936)
  • Estrellita (1936)
  • Portrait of Enrique González Martínez (1936)
  • Soldier (1937)
  • The poet (1938)
  • Portrait of Liza (1939)
  • Portrait of Ana Ma. Artigas (1941)

Gallery

Monument to Alvaro Obregón The proletarian family, in the Plutarco colony Elías Calles The actress Dolores Heredia next to the Ariel statuette