Author Description

"We present the artwork of one of the best Mexican landscape painters, Gerardo Murillo, better known as Dr. Atl (1875-1964), who was at the same time the promoter of mural-making and of the vanguards that marked the history of Mexican art. This publication encompasses seven decades that attest to the artistic evolution of Dr. Atl and his contributions to the modern art of Mexico; it shows his portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and sky-landscapes; the latter have a very unique inner movement and chromatic quality, which result of the use of the curvilinear perspective and the so-called Alt colors by the artist. Thanks to them the volcanoes Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl y Paricutín emerge from the paintings as protagonists whose life pumps over the canvas."--Publisher's website.