Gilbert Lujan (1940 - 2011)
1940-10-16French Camp, USA2011-07-24Los Angeles, USAUSA
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 |
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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 |