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Juan and Helen O'Gorman play chess in Casa Cueva, 1959,
Juan O’Gorman (b. 1905, Coyoacán, Mexico; d. 1982, Mexico City, Mexico) was an architect and artist, known for his early functionalist and later organic architecture and often surrealist paintings, murals, and mosaics that had nationalistic and anti-fascist themes.
Juan O’Gorman was committed to the integration of art and architecture, and, along with his friend and collaborator Diego Rivera, to creating a vernacular Mexican architecture. His most celebrated works include the Library of the National University in Mexico City (1951–53), which is adorned with a mosaic facade representing the history of Mexican culture, and his now destroyed personal home Casa O’Gorman (1948–54, demolished 1969) Avenida San Jerónimo 162 , El Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico that integrated the surrounding lava-formed landscape.
Photo by Eliot Eliofon, LIFE Picture Collection, courtesy Noguchi Museum.
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“The most important architectural work of my life”: That’s how legendary architect Juan O’Gorman remembered the home he built in 1954 on a natural lava cave in the Mexico City neighborhood of El Pedregal.
Last month, the only existing scale model of O’Gorman’s mystical “Casa Cueva” landed improbably in New York’s Noguchi Museum, along with three more takes on cavernous habitation by Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Lazo, and Javier Senosiain.
The model of O’Gorman’s house is significant because Casa Cueva no longer exists. Its destruction more than five decades ago — and the bitter discourse that it engendered — pitted two great artists against each other in what remains one of the most divisive episodes in the recent history of Mexican art.
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La biblioteca central es una joya de nuestra universidad ❤️
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Juan O'Gorman, Mexico City, 1949, tempera/board (Museo de Arte Moderno/INBA, Mexico City)
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JUAN O’GORMAN /
El reino vegetal es un país lejano
1947
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Detail from Casa Estudio Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo in Mexico’s City made by the Mexican architect Juan O’gorman
Film Photo by Iran Dimas ( @irancomoelpais )
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La Ciudad de México (detalle)
Juan O'Gorman. 1949
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Max Cetto y Juan O’Gorman, jugando ajedrez en la casa cueva.
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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio by Juan O'Gorman
Shot on Olympus PEN-F
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Library, UNAM
murals by Juan O’Gorman
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Juan O'Gorman: Architect and muralist extraordinaire, his Central Library is Mexico's Eiffel Tower, blending pre-Hispanic and European influences. Beyond aesthetics, his schools championed hygiene, anticipating modern needs.
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Esta es una pintura del mexicano Juan O'Gorman titulada Autoretrato (múltiple).
Es conocido por la realización del mural de la biblioteca Central en Ciudad Universitaria y la construcción de la casa-estudio de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo.
Me gustó mucho por la cantidad de simbolismo que contiene, mostrándose pintando su retrato con ayuda de un espejo donde se aprecia su reflejo, pero en la esquina una mano reconoce al propio O'Gorman detrás del caballete. Hace referencia también a sus pasiones: arquitectura (y su relación con el rigor científico) y la pintura (con aspectos metafísicos).
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#Frida Kahlo#Diego Rivera#Juan O'Gorman#mexico#mexican#architecture#art#arts#mexico city#ciudad de mexico#painter#painting
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Toryorlando91:
Cecil O'Gorman House designed by Juan O’Gorman - Mexico City, 1929
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Jim Morrison in front of a mural by Juan O'Gorman, Mexico City 1970
photo by Lisciandro
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