About The Artist:
Armando Villagran
Born in 1945 in Mexico City and died in 1995, Villagrán was a self-taught artist, a painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. Villagrán has been considered by the art critics of Mexico as a poetic visual artist; his work has been compared to Paul Klee’s, especially in form, line and color. Villagran is one of the artists who tried to create a universal expression out of regionalisms or ethnicisms....
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About The Medium:
Oil
Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.