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BENJAMIN OROZCO LOPEZ Master Painter Benjamin Orozco Lopez was born in Mexico City in 1964. Since his childhood he had a clear tendency for art due to his father´s influence, the Master Painter Benjamin Orozco Mendez, who developed his art in his own home's studio. It is then, at 15 years old, guided by his father, when he begins his apprenticeship of fascinating world of drawing and painting, and in 1982 when he was only 18, that is published the first comic-book totally illustrated by him. That comic was followed by a great diversity of comic-book titles, which convert him in member of the group of drawing artists that were part of the "Golden Age" of mexican comics. As an illustrator, his works had been published countless times on books and magazines spreading his work to prestigious publishing companies, textile, calendar and games corporations, between many others. When the digital age prevailed in the printed media, Benjamin decided to revolve his field of action and turned out to be a full time portrait artist. Little by little the name of Benjamin Orozco Lopez was winning height as a renowned portrait artist and actually is one of the most prominent that we have in Mexico, painting in his canvas the faces of important personalities of politics, industry, militia, teaching, religion, and so on. His work takes roots in a reality full of life and is skillfully done with such craftsmanship that astonishes as well as for the sensuous force that catches the psychology and expression of the represented character or the force and presence of objects; he captures in his work a "living" reality and the atmosphere just as the life presents to him. His art has taken him to realize countless artworks for a legion of clients such as State's Ministers, Governors, Court's Ministers,High Military Commands, Rectors, Executive and Business Managers; and those works had allowed him to manage in private, politic, military, cultural and religious environments. At present, the paintings of Master Painter Orozco are placed in private collections as well as at special sites of State's ministry, military installations, educational, medical, civil institutions and private corporations, including very important sites as the National Palace of Mexico. |
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