Mariano Paredes

Mariano Paredes Limón (b. Veracruz, Veracruz 1912 – d. Mexico City 1980) was a Mexican artist, best known for his engraving work.

Career In 1921 he moved to Mexico City, and from 1922 to 1923 studied at the Academy of San Carlos under teachers such as José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, Sóstenes Orteaga and Raziel Cabildo.

Paredes Limón illustrated numerous books and worked on various pamphlets, magazines and other publications for the cultural movements that emerged in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s.

Artistry Paredes was part of the artistic movement that arose after the Mexican Revolution and it is best known for its mural work. Although he experimented with oil painting, watercolor and drawing, his mastery of engraving earned him his reputation in Mexican art. However, like other artists of this time, especially engraver, he was not exceptionally political and did not restrict his work to social and political themes. Critics in Mexico have noted that he had an eclectic artistic language and his drawings and engravings focus on maternity and country scenes, still lifes, landscapes and images related to Mexican nationalism. He was an apprentice to a Czech engraver named Sokoi, learning woodcuts and etchings. In the latter he created large number of original works. Other influences in his work include that of Francisco Goya and Georges Braque .