Gilbert Lujan (1940 - 2011) - photo 1

Gilbert Lujan

Gilbert Lujan was an American sculptor and muralist. He is better known in professional circles under the pseudonym "Magu".

Magu's work became popular throughout the 1980s and 1990s for its use of colourful imagery, anthropomorphic animals, lowrider images of outrageously proportioned sizes, decorated with overlapping indigenous motifs (cities, graffiti), Dia De Los Muertos installations, altars and all manner of pop culture borrowings.

Date and place of birt:16 october 1940, French Camp, USA
Date and place of death:24 july 2011, Los Angeles, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Animalist, Artist, Designer, Painter, Portraitist, Sculptor
Art school / group:Los Four
Genre:Animalistic, Portrait
Art style:Chicano art, Primitivism, Naïve art, Art brut

Creators USA

Ivan Grazianovich Dombrovsky (1886 - 1961)
Ivan Grazianovich Dombrovsky
1886 - 1961
Kyle Morris (1918 - 1979)
Kyle Morris
1918 - 1979
Philip Pearlstein (1924 - 2022)
Philip Pearlstein
1924 - 2022
Nancy Rubins (1952)
Nancy Rubins
1952
Jay DeFeo (1929 - 1989)
Jay DeFeo
1929 - 1989
Mickalene Thomas (1971)
Mickalene Thomas
1971
Donald Baechler (1956 - 2022)
Donald Baechler
1956 - 2022
Vincent Pepi (1926 - 2020)
Vincent Pepi
1926 - 2020
Vito Acconci (1940 - 2017)
Vito Acconci
1940 - 2017
August Zeller (1863 - 1918)
August Zeller
1863 - 1918
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832 - 1932)
Hermann Ottomar Herzog
1832 - 1932
Alex Perweiler (1986)
Alex Perweiler
1986
Stuart Farmery (1953)
Stuart Farmery
1953
Rachel Berman (1946 - 2014)
Rachel Berman
1946 - 2014
Dominic Chambers (1993)
Dominic Chambers
1993
Liam Gillick (1964)
Liam Gillick
1964

Creators Art brut

Salomon Meijer (1877 - 1965)
Salomon Meijer
1877 - 1965
 T. C. Cannon (1946 - 1978)
T. C. Cannon
1946 - 1978
Osvaldo Licini (1894 - 1958)
Osvaldo Licini
1894 - 1958
Leo Beninga (1971)
Leo Beninga
1971
Tarcisio Merati (1934 - 1995)
Tarcisio Merati
1934 - 1995
Inez Nathaniel-Walker (1911 - 1990)
Inez Nathaniel-Walker
1911 - 1990
David Petrovich Shterenberg (1881 - 1948)
David Petrovich Shterenberg
1881 - 1948
Morton Bartlett (1909 - 1992)
Morton Bartlett
1909 - 1992
Roger Ballen (1950)
Roger Ballen
1950
Christian Vetsch (1912 - 1996)
Christian Vetsch
1912 - 1996
Antonio Ligabue (1899 - 1965)
Antonio Ligabue
1899 - 1965
George Widener (1962)
George Widener
1962
Sunayani Devi (1875 - 1962)
Sunayani Devi
1875 - 1962
Henry Speller (1900 - 1997)
Henry Speller
1900 - 1997
John Christopher Wood (1901 - 1930)
John Christopher Wood
1901 - 1930
Leopold Strobl (1960)
Leopold Strobl
1960
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