Clouds by Gerardo Murillo
Clouds by Gerardo Murillo or better known as DR AT1. I hope you enjoy his painting as much as I have!
Gerardo Murillo but known under that name of Dr Atl (Atl means water) was a contemporary of Herran and Diego Rivera and they studied at the Academia San Carlos together. Atl like Rivera left for France after their studies were completed and stayed there several years. Atl came back painting like the one above. The name is Clouds from 1933. Clouds consist of the colors of impressionism blues, greens, and whites. However, he did not paint like an impressionist at all. His approach is more abstract and somewhat geometric with soft sensuous rounded edges. His work is also sensitive to plastic ideas expressed in post impressionist art: that of pattern and the division of colors. He did plein air painting, meaning that he painted outside. Atl was a bigger than life character inventive in life and artistically. He came up with a mixture that he called Atl color, which was pigments and some type of natural compounds he grinded with copal and the sap of a resinous indigenous tree used for varied purposes including religious ones. Atl took stock of the land around him in central Mexico, and the state of Michoacan filled with volcanos, which was his other passion besides art.
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Works Cited
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Latin American Art since 1900. 3rd ed., 2021.