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Zalce, Alfredo
(b Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, 12 Jan 1908). Mexican painter, printmaker and teacher. He studied in Mexico City at the Academia de San Carlos (1924–9) and at the Escuela de Grabado y Talla Directa. In 1930 he founded the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Taxco. He was also a member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and an early member in 1937 of the TALLER DE GRÁFICA POPULAR, taking part in their group exhibitions and publications until 1950. From 1951 he was director of the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Morelia, Michoacán. In addition to his career as a teacher he was active politically. He practised primarily as a printmaker with a clear and precise draughtsmanship; he published, for example, a portfolio of eight lithographs, Estampas de Yucatán (1945), after travelling through the area for several months. He was also involved with the muralist movement in Mexico, and in 1930, in collaboration with Isabel Villaseñor, he was the first in Mexico to use coloured concrete for murals, in their work on the external walls of the Escuela de Ayotla in Tlaxaca. Among his most notable murals are Defenders of National Integrity (fresco and coloured concrete, 1951) and Brother Alonso of the Order of the True Cross (1952; both Morelia, Mus. Reg. Michoacano), in which fragmented figures are reintegrated into a subtle geometry, at once rational and poetic.
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