(Two women, Mexico)

Francisco Luna

TGP printmaker Francisco Luna did this linocut around 1955. It depicts two Mexican women in shawls walking at night. In the background there appears to be a cement mixer with bags stacked on a pallet. To the left is a mound of aggregate. Mexico has used concrete in building since the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.

Francisco Luna was born in 1931 in Mexico, D.F. (Mexico City). Between 1950 and 1951 he studied printmaking and painting at the La Esmeralda Academy (Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado) during which time he collaborated Carlos Mérida and TGP co-founder Luis Arenal ?on the murals of the Belsario Dominguez School in Morelia. In 1952, together again with Luis Arenal, he created a mural in the Government Palace of Guerrero.

In 1953 Luna was an assistant of David Alfaro Siqueiros painting the murals of Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Between 1952 and 1955 he was a member of el Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP). Between 1954 and 1963 he was an art teacher in Patzcuaro, Mexico at the UNESCO and CREAL Equator Center, a regional center for adult education for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1963 he re-entered the TGP. Later he assisted in some of the 105 murals in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Luna also taught at the Universidad Obrera de Mexico, DF.