Dr Atl, one of the founders of the Mexican art revolution was born October 3, 1875 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

The man who called himself Dr. Atl was born Gerardo Murillo, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on October 3, 1875. His biography states that he was a painter, a writer, an explorer, a geologist, a philosopher, a historian, an art critic, a stylist, a doctor, a professor, a political commentator, a journalist, a statesman, a novelist, a cartoonist, a poet and a chef. Exploring the paintings of Mexico’s eccentric, ever-surprising Dr. Atl (Excellent read by the way)

Gerardo “Dr Atl” Murillo, Artist, birth centenary
Released in 1975 by Mexico
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Growing up in Mexico, he had been mainly surrounded by religious art, but his work showed the influence of various European art movements by the time he returned to Mexico in 1903. Atl painted the first modern mural in Mexico at the spark of the revolution in 1910. It contained scenes of female nudes, and he used his own invented medium, Atl colors, composed of wax, resin, and pigment. Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo) Biography – Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo) on artnet 

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