Ruben Morales

Artist Rubén Morales, long a familiar figure selling paintings on Sunday on the Plaza de los Muertos (Plaza of the Martyrs) in the colonial city of Morelia, Michoacan, in the middle of the altiplano states, has been winning attention after articles in several newspapers and magazines appeared, and collectors north of the border have been acquiring and taking his paintings and returning home with them to all corners of the globe. Rubén Morales looks like an artist, in his fifties, glasses hanging from a cord around his neck. His facial features are classic Mexican. He has dark curly hair with a mustache turning white, and sensitive eyes. He was born in Morelia in 1947, the son of a construction laborer, with four brothers and sisters. He is a family man who late in life began painting after his three daughters and son were raised. He attended Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes in Morelia, Michoacan for two years, but found the formal techniques not to his nature and developed his own style and interpretation from his fellow artists. The oil paintings are of men carrying bundles, bent, faceless, returning home after working with their hands all day. The women in rebozos gossiping in groups or kneeling in supplication, sometimes selling florwers in the market, going about the daily work of living in a small Mexican pueblo. He doesn't crowd the painting done in oil so you can focus on the main theme with lots of white space around the figures... faceless figures done in impressionistic style, with heavy rhythmic swirls of paint applied with brush and a pallet knife in warm bright colors. I met the artist quite by accident while walking on a Sunday in the plaza next to the cathedral in the center of Morelia where artists display their works on Sunday after mass. He interrupted his chatting with other artists and showed me his simplistic small-sized oils of a woman walking away carrying a pail on her head in deep blue, and another young woman sitting with her arms around her knees in front of a bowl of orange flowers. His subjects are from his life, workers, and vendors coming to the market with their fruits and flowers sitting in the tree-covered plazas in the middle of the day. His favorite painter of the Mexican greats was Diego Rivera. Asked about what he thought of Jose Luis Cuevas and his powerful images preoccupied with the darker subject of death so prominent in the Mexican culture, he said he respects his skills as an artist but prefers to portray the beauty of life of the living, people of integrity and simplicity. He has evolved and has been expanding artistically as well as geographically with shows in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and Los Angeles, Scottsdale, and Santa Fe in the U.S. We are proud to be his representative in Mexico here at Galeria Corona in Puerto Vallarta.

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	Art Details Please note that some of these paintings are now sold, but Galeria Corona has others available for you.
	Blue Woman Walking Oil on Fibracel 19 x 15 in.
	Casa In TzinTzunTzan Oil on Fibracel 15 x 19 in
	Five Women With Daughters Oil on Fibracel 30 x 39 in
	Five Women With Rebozos Oil on Fibracel 30 x 39 in
	Geronimo, Michoacan Oil on Fibracel 15 x 19 in
	Riding Horse Flash Oil on Fibracel 15 x 19 in
	Three Women Sitting Oil on Fibracel 15x19in
	Woman Harvesting Tules Oil on Fibracel 19 x 15 in
	9 Oil on Fibracel
	10 Oil on Fibracel