Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (March 7, 1905 – October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist known under his first name Abraham Ángel because his Scottish father forbade him to use the surname after he left the family when Abraham Ángel was a child.After the father left the family the mother went with their children to Puebla where Abraham Ángel spent his childhood before he went with his brother to Mexico City when he was at the age of 11. In Mexico City he visited the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (also known as Academia de San Carlos), met Manuel Rodríguez Lozano in 1921, with whom he had an intensive affair, and gave lessons in drawing based on the methods of Adolfo Best Maugard.
Abraham Ángel painted portraits, village scenes and landscapes. He used unnaturalistic colours and his paintings were of a naïve style. He died due to an overdose of morphine, after he suffered from depression. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Abraham Angel, son of a Mexican mother and a father of Scottish ancestry, and the youngest of five brothers, had left home at age 17, evidently to escape the control of his mother and oldest brother.
He would study art his way. His most influential teacher, not coincidentally, was Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, one of Mexico’s finest artists. In addition to painting Angel’s portrait, Rodriguez Lozano had been his friend, his promoter, and his boyfriend. The maestro’s emerging homosexuality doubtless disturbed his wife, and the couple divorced.
Abraham Angel and his teacher spent July and August of 1923 together in Cuernavaca, and, as the paintings at the Museum of Modern Art illustrate, this was a period of profound growth and productivity for Angel. Diego Rivera, one of history’s most distinguished painters, praised the young man in a contemporary magazine article. According to another web article, in 1924 Angel traveled around Argentina with Rodriguez Lozano and painter Julio Castellanos, exhibiting work to delighted audiences.
Then the road ends. In October 1924, at age 19, Abraham Angel either committed suicide or died of a cocaine overdose and was buried in a tomb that no longer exists. (mexidata.info)
Abraham Angel, son of a Mexican mother and a father of Scottish ancestry, and the youngest of five brothers, had left home at age 17, evidently to escape the control of his mother and oldest brother.
He would study art his way. His most influential teacher, not coincidentally, was Manuel Rodriguez Lozano, one of Mexico’s finest artists. In addition to painting Angel’s portrait, Rodriguez Lozano had been his friend, his promoter, and his boyfriend. The maestro’s emerging homosexuality doubtless disturbed his wife, and the couple divorced.
Abraham Angel and his teacher spent July and August of 1923 together in Cuernavaca, and, as the paintings at the Museum of Modern Art illustrate, this was a period of profound growth and productivity for Angel. Diego Rivera, one of history’s most distinguished painters, praised the young man in a contemporary magazine article. According to another web article, in 1924 Angel traveled around Argentina with Rodriguez Lozano and painter Julio Castellanos, exhibiting work to delighted audiences.
Then the road ends. In October 1924, at age 19, Abraham Angel either committed suicide or died of a cocaine overdose and was buried in a tomb that no longer exists. (mexidata.info)
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