Cultural supplements, and other publications that defined the intellectual life of that country during the second half of the 20th century. He was a painter, sculptor, editor and graphic designer. Goodbye Vicente Rojo! Goodbye to a master of Mexican plastic art 4 He made the art for Octavio Paz's visual discs. And a masterpiece in the complex gear that puts new talent in motion in a scene. Without going any further, the Era publishing house, of which he was artistic director, had the amazing vision of publishing, in 1962, the collection of poems by the Mexican José Emilio Pacheco, who would obtain, in 2009, the Cervantes Prize for Literature. He also published the first edition of
The Colonel No One Writes to Him in 1961, almost 20 years before its author, Gabriel García Márquez, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Goodbye Vicente Rojo! Goodbye to a master of Mexican plastic art 6 Country of Volcanoes, the jewelry retouching service installation. By Red Vincent. Credit: Wikipedia. His vocation began at a young age. Although he grew up in a house without any art books, he soon became obsessed with drawing. His greatest obsession, as he recently confessed,
was to draw well something that remained pending: a horse. “I never managed it, neither as a boy nor as an adult,” he expressed with the spark that characterized him. Perhaps because fate had more important things in store for him than a horse. Over time, Rojo would position himself as an avant-garde artist due to his abstractionism , at the opposite pole from the aesthetic promoted by the Mexican school, which was realism.