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Asúnsolo, Ignacio
(b Hacienda de San Juan Bautista, Durango, 15 March 1890; d Mexico City, 21 Dec 1965). Mexican sculptor. He served in the Mexican Revolution before enrolling in the Academia de S Carlos, continuing his studies from 1919 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On his return to Mexico in 1921, he began a fruitful career as teacher and artist, applying an academic naturalism to official public monuments of nationalist inspiration such as monument to the Fatherland (1924; Mexico City, Mus. N. Hist.). His most ambitious works relating to the revolution are the monument to Obregón (1933; Mexico City, Avenida Insurgentes), Proletarian Family (1934; Mexico City, Inst. Poli. N.) and the monument to Francisco Villa (1957; Chihuahua, Avenida División del Norte). He also treated other subjects, such as female nudes and portraits, sometimes in wood or cast bronze, which contain reference to Pre-Columbian art. Essentially he was an artist resistant to change, a staunch and honourable traditionalist.
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