Luis Arenal Bastar 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, engraver and sculptor.

Biography

Luis Arenal had two siblings, a brother named Leopoldo, and a sister named Angélica, the later wife of David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros

José David Alfaro Siqueiros was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an...

.. He studied law and sculpture in Mexico City from 1927 to 1928, before he moved to the United States in 1929, where he visited the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

. In 1930 he started painting. Together with other notable painters, he painted the mural "La America Tropical" at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 in 1932. Together with Alfaro Siqueiros he painted "Retrato de la Burguesia" and "La Marcha de la Humanidad". In 1944 he finished two sculptures for Alfaro Siqueiros' mural "Cuauhtémoc contra el Mito"..

Arenal was the first secretary of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios

The Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios was a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers. It was established in the house of its first president Leopoldo Méndez in 1933 in due to the disbanded "Sindicato de Trabajadores Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores" , and was defined as...

, and was founding member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular in 1937..

External links

• Listings for over 70 works produced by Luis Arenal during his time at the Taller de Gráfica Popular can be viewed at Gráfica Mexciana.