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Gilbert "Magú" Luján (born 1940) is a well known and influential Chicano sculptor, muralist and painter. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chicano (feminine Chicana) is a politically-loaded word for a Mexican American (in the sense of native-born Americans of Mexican ancestry as opposed to Mexican A mural is a Painting on a wall ceiling or other large permanent surface Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e He is a founding member of the famous Chicano Art collective Los Four along with Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha (Father of former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha) , and Frank Romero. Los Four was a seminal and influential Chicano artist collective during the 1970s and early 1980s in Los Angeles California. Carlos Almaraz ( October 5, 1941 - December 11, 1989) was a Mexican-American artist and an early proponent of the Chicano Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha was an American painter, graphic artist, and Muralist He was born in Wilmar California to Rage Against the Machine (sometimes shortened to RATM or Rage) is Zacarías Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970 in Long Beach, California) is an American rapper, Singer In 1974, Judithe Hernandez became the "fifth" and only female member of Los Four.

Luján was born in French Camp, California, near Stockton, to parents of Mexican and indigenous ancestry from the current delineation of West Texas. French Camp is a Census-designated place (CDP in San Joaquin County, California, United States. Stockton is a City in California and the seat of San Joaquin County (the fifth largest agricultural county in the United States The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. Six months later, his family relocated to East Los Angeles, California, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. See also East Los Angeles (region East Los Angeles (often shortened to East L

After serving in the Air Force, Luján returned home from three years in England in 1962 and began to attend college, first at East Los Angeles College, then to California State University, Long Beach, where he earned his B. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. East Los Angeles College is a Community college, of the Los Angeles Community College District, located in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey California State University Long Beach (also known as Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach State, CSU Long Beach, CSULB, LBSU A. in Ceramic Sculpture in 1969 and then to University of California, Irvine, where he earned an M. The University of California Irvine is a public Coeducational Research university situated in Irvine, California. F. A. in Sculpture in 1973. By this time East L. A. had become a hotbed of socio-political and cultural activity, as the Chicano Movement became a turbulent and exciting social force in the communities the U. The Chicano Movement of the 1960s also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, it is an extension of the Mexican S. Southwest. At this time Luján began to organize art exhibits(1964) and artists' conferences to establish Chicano Art as a valid form of artistic axpression. He met with three other like-minded Chicano artists and formed Los Four in the Fall of 1973 at the University of California, Irvine. In 1973, Los Four had their premiere exhibition at UC Irvine. In 1974, Los Four exhibited at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the first-ever Chicano Art exhibit "Los Four. " This was quickly followed by several other exhibitions on the west coast. Los Four did for Chicano visual art what ASCO had done for Chicano performance art; that is, it helped establish the themes, esthetic and vocabulary of the nascent movement. "Magú", the name by which Luján is most known says of that time:

The significance of Los Four mirrored the socio-political introspection and concerns of Raza at that time besides providing some iconographic vocabulary to initiate definitions of our ethno-art forms. Our Los Four Xicano contingency ran against some Euro-aesthetic standards of the period. We, as pictorial artists, gave a visual voice to those interests of parity for our young artist constituency-culture. It was a form of cooperation binding us by our sociological circumstance, indigenous paradigms and our adopted response to unify ourselves along political cultural oriented purposes, in lieu of solely aesthetical ones. [1]

From 1976-1980, Luján taught at the La Raza Studies Department at Fresno City College becoming department chair 1980. As of 2005 a professor at Pomona College and resides in the Pomona Art Colony, California. Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont California.

In 1990 Magú was commissioned as a design principal along with architect Adolfo Miralles for the Hollywood & Vine station on the Red Line in Los Angeles, California. By 1999 Magú completed a series of wall tiles and platform sculptural benches in the form of Low-Rider automobiles. He chose the theme song, "Hooray for Hollywood", as the signature tune for the Hollywood & Vine Metro station. The Yellow Brick Road (from the plaza to the train platform) is a prominent motif taken from the 1939 classic movie “The Wizard of Oz. “ [2][3][4]

Magú's artwork became famous in its own right throughout the 1980s and 1990s as it used colorful imagery, anthropomorphic animals, depictions of outrageously proportioned lowrider lowrider cars, festooned with indigenous/urban motifs juxtaposed , graffiti,Dia De Los Muertos installation altars and all sorts of borrowings from pop-culture. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely Human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings natural and supernatural phenomena material states and objects A lowrider is a Car or Truck which has had its suspension system modified (sometimes with Hydraulic suspension so that it rides as The Magú states:

"My art intentions, over the years, have been to use Mesoamerican heritage as well as implementing current popular Art and cultural folk sources as the content substance to make Chicanarte. "[5]

Installations and Exhibitions

Installations of Magu's work include:

External links

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is an Art museum in Los Angeles County California. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington DC. The University of California Irvine is a public Coeducational Research university situated in Irvine, California. The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second-largest Art museum in The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ( MFAH) located in Houston, is one of the largest museums in the country
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