Amador Lugo Guadarrama was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 painter and engraver.

Biography

Lugo studied at the open-air painting school of Taxco

Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón is a small city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The name Taxco is most likely derived from the Nahuatl word tlacheco, which means “place of the ballgame.” However, one interpretation has the name coming from the word tatzco which means “where the father...

, which was led by Tamiji Kitagawa at this time. Afterwards he moved to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, where he studied at the Escuela de Artes del Libro, led by Francisco Díaz de León

Francisco Díaz de León

Francisco Díaz de León was a Mexican engraver.- Biography :...

, under Carlos Alvarado Lang

Carlos Alvarado Lang

Carlos Alvarado Lang was a Mexican printmaker.Alvarado Lang studied printmaking under Emiliano Valadéz at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 1929 he followed Emiliano Valadéz on his chair. After the course offer of the ENBA was expanded in 1930, he got the chair of engraving...

 after 1942. In 1947 he was co-founder of the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores, in 1948 of the Impulso de las Artes Plásticas and in 1949 of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

Salón de la Plástica Mexicana

The Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an art museum of plastic arts, which was founded by a group of notable artists on November 16, 1949. Today the SPM is located in the Calle de Colima 196 in the Colonia Roma and in the Donceles 99 in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City...

. He participated in more than 350 exhibitions worldwide, wrote La ciudad de México vista por cinco pintores and several articles.