Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, February 20, 2026 : Vicente Rojo, a Spanish-Mexican painter, graphic designer, and sculptor (#2485)

Friday, February 20, 2026

Artist of the Day, February 20, 2026 : Vicente Rojo, a Spanish-Mexican painter, graphic designer, and sculptor (#2485)

Vicente Rojo Almazán (1932 – 2021) was a Spanish-Mexican painter, graphic designer, and sculptor exiled and nationalized Mexican. It stands out both for the pictorial work, and for the graphic that it manages in all its possibilities. His work is located within the group of Mexican opticians. Born in Barcelona in 1932, he studied sculpture at the Elementary School of Work. In 1949 he arrived in Mexico and began studies at the School of Painting and Sculpture of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) and in the workshop of A. Souto, combining his artistic vocation with editorial work. Throughout his life he founded and directed several magazines: Artes, Mexico in Culture, La Cultura in Mexico. His name has achieved great fame in graphic design for Plural, Visual Arts and Visual Discs magazines. On any support and technique the work of Rojo has an undoubted interest, but in the graphic specialty it is a virtuous in all its domains: etchings, aquatints, lithographs, silkscreens and collages. Painting and graphic work run in parallel, being nonetheless the same. It evolves from an expressionist option to the geometrism of circles, squares, hexagons with a frontal view. As a painter, his series must be highlighted: Signs, Denials and Mexico in the rain.

This great artist has contributed to Mexican culture as a plastic artist, painter, sculptor, graphic designer and cultural promoter. In 1960, he was co-founder of Editorial Era, of which he still remains a member of the editorial board and artistic director. He has also collaborated in the foundation of publishers, cultural supplements and other publications.

He influenced in a very important way by collaborating in the office of editions of the National Institute of Fine Arts, the Revista de la Universidad de México and the supplement La Cultura en México of the Revista Siempre.

Rojo belongs to the group of artists called a break, who broke with the tradition of the great muralists (Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera), was a very important figure for the development of the aesthetic arts of the country, participating in the circles and although he considers that it is rather of continuity; renewer of form and color, he makes variants of the same theme and achieves that all his work is the same as different; as an editor he contributed to the quality of the Mexican industry

Vicente Rojo explains his passion for contributing to Mexico since he arrived in 1949. "When I arrived in Mexico, what dazzled me the most was its light, its sun and its air of freedom, I was just 17 years old when I arrived and I was dragging all the darkness and cruelty that a civil war embodies, so from the first moment I stepped on Mexico I fell in love and continues to do so until now."

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