The Faculty of Arts and Design (Spanish: Facultad de Artes y Diseño ; formerly known as the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas or ENAP),[1] is a college of art in Xochimilco, Mexico City. The school is part the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and is responsible for teaching painting, sculpture and graphic design, with undergraduate and graduate studies in San Carlos. In 2007 and 2008, the Council of Designers of Mexico recognised the faculty as the best art school in Mexico.[2]
History
editThe Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas was spun off from the Academy of San Carlos.[3]
The graduate program is held in San Carlos and is regarded as a research institute.
Notable alumni
edit- Celia Calderón (1921–1969), printmaker and painter, attended in the 1940s[4]
- Pedro Cervantes (born 1933), sculptor[5]
- Mónica Mayer (born 1954)
- Gabriel Orozco (born 1962),[6] attended 1981 to 1984.
- Melchor Peredo (born 1927)
- Puri Yáñez (born 1936), attended ENAP from 1956 to 1958.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (1987). Debroise, Olivier (ed.). La era de la discrepancia. Turner, Ediciones S.A., 2006. p. 62. ISBN 9789689056003. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Boletines
- ^ "Historia de la FAD". Archived from the original on 2019-12-01. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ^ "Celia Calderón, 1921–1969" (in Spanish). Mexico City: Blaisten Museum. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.
- ^ Merry Mac Masters (December 12, 2011). "Un triángulo amoroso entre autor, obra y espectador, sugiere Cervantes" [A love triangle among the author, work and spectator, suggests Cervantes] (in Spanish). Mexico City: La Jorana. p. 8. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "Gabriel Orozco". Art21. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ^ Musacchio, Humberto (1999). Millennia of Mexico. Vol. 3. Hoja Casa Editorial. p. 3276. ISBN 9789686565379.
External links
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- Official Website (Spanish) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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