With
the latest international demand for American Art with a
Latin touch, now serious collectors can include the art
of Manuel Unzueta, an artist who has been creating exciting
art for the last 25 years. Based in Santa Barbara, California,
Unzueta has produced a vast number of artworks that include
exciting colorful murals with philosophical implications.
Paintings and drawings that highlight a diverse concern
for culture and modernism.
Unzueta,
has shown his art in and outside of the USA and has received
important recognition for his humanistic concerns and aesthetic
innovations. In 1975 he earned his Masters of Fine Arts
from the University of California and excites the crowds
when he shares his work in campuses and institutions around
the country.
The
art of Manuel Unzueta is a human preoccupation as well as
great concern for esthetic searching. Whether he paints
a huge mural with significant aspects of Hispanic culture
or a small painting of vivid Sarape colors, his total involvement
with art is inevitable. His recent series of bright Sarape
arrangements as well as his fascination with mestizo faces
makes those canvases explode with vibrant energy of unlimited
color combinations and beauty. But Unzueta's preoccupation
with art does not end with the representation of the images
he creates. He introduces a mystical touch heavily rooted
in his Mexican Southwestern influences.
In
many of his murals, Manuel Unzueta introduces us to the
world of the human concerns by which he lives, while many
of his smaller canvases offer us a more personal touch. This
commitment to community ideals has ultimately encouraged
him to share his visions of art and human concerns in educational
forums.
Since
the late 1960’s Manuel Unzueta has been a prolific artist,
creating many fascinating series of artworks and exhibitions,
which have been warmly embraced by the public. Since his
early drawings of tormented figures influenced by Mexican
muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, his Chicano murals expressed that tendency and,
his more colorful work of the late 1970’s, and his recent
cultural concern, Unzueta has grown in exposure and maturity.
A
native of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Unzueta was
raised both in his native city and in El Paso, Texas. During
his youth, Unzueta moved to Santa Barbara, California where
he completed his Baccalaureate degree in Art and Master
of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of California.
