ARMANDO CAMPERO
Biographical Information
Born in Mexico, Campero attended the San Carlos Academy of Art in Mexico City where one of his teachers was Diego Rivera. After receiving a one-year scholarship to study at the Fine Art School in Chicago, then traveling to New York and Paris, he returned to Mexico and worked for two years (1949-1951) with Rivera on the mural project Lerma Tunnel. In the mid-1960s Campero came to Los Angeles and was among the first to paint murals in East Los Angeles. He has also done murals in Chicago, St. Louis, Spain, France, Mexico, and Guatemala. For almost 15 years he was a political cartoonist for La Opinion, Los Angeles's Spanish-language newspaper. Still a Mexican citizen, he lives in San Fernando Valley, making regular trips south of the border.
Mural Credits
Construction of the Law (photo)
El Mexican-Americano Ayer, Ahora, Manana (photo)
History of Medicine (photo)
The Kennedy Saga II
Portrait of Jesus Christ
La Villa Market (Untitled)
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