Best Maugard, Adolfo

Adolfo Best Maugard
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Name	Best Maugard, Adolfo Gender: M
born on	1 June 1891 at 01:00 (= 01:00 AM )
Place	Mexico City, Mexico, 19n24, 99w09
Timezone	LMT m99w09 (is local mean time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	10°30' 00°49 Asc. 22°56'

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Adolfo Best Maugard (His "Standing Woman Reaching for a Flower," circa 1918)

Biography

Mexican painter, art historian, film director and screenwriter, who founded the universalism method in drawing. His book, Método de dibujo: Tradición, resurgimiento y evolución del arte mexicano (Drawing Method: Tradition, Resurgence, and Evolution of Mexican Art) would explain the seven elements in drawing. The Best Maugard method was fundamental to the modernist aesthetic in Mexico. His style and method was a proposal for defining mexicanidad (Mexican-ness).

He died on 25 August 1964, aged 73, in Athens, Greece.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Covarrubias, Miguel (born 22 November 1904)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 25 August 1964 (Age 73)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry from Federal District, Mexico archives. Wikipedia has 11 June in error.

Categories

• Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (Painter)

• Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director (Film)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian (Art)

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script (Screenwriter)

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction