Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition, June 25 - December 17, 2003 Page: 16 of 24
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Complete man and chair that can't wait for him to
sit down, charcoal & acrylic graphite on masonite, 2003
"My goal to is to humanize art and associate it to people in the real world and our primal
beginnings. It is the relationship between deity and humans that I want to relate. In primitive dei-
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ties, beauty was celebrated in the various forms of the body; there was no ideal as there is today.
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My drawings filled with nakedness intend to represent the body as a whole, with imperfections
and beauty. In the same way that these drawings connect to prehistoric art through their crude 1
lines, the intent is also to evoke vulnerability that exists in the depths of the human psyche.The
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raw emotion is first and sexuality becomes secondary as these characters struggle to complete
themselves.Their bodies with no dimension reflect the incomplete, unfulfilled part in all of us that
is constantly reaching for comfort and security. In a society obsessed with physical
perfection, I find more comfort in the aesthetics of the real world, wherein lies a special kind
of objective beauty.These drawings attempt to bring us back to a fundamental outlook of the
human body and soul."
A self-taught artist influenced by the German Expressionists and Mexican muralists and several
mentors from both Laredo and Nuevo Laredo helped form his artistic beliefs and style. Jorge
started creating images at the age of eighteen and since then has had several shows in Austin,
Texas, Nuevo Laredo,Tamps. Mexico, and Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He stopped F
working on art for about three years before starting his style of drawings in early 2002. He has F
decided to make this his central focus.
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Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.). Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition, June 25 - December 17, 2003, pamphlet, 2003; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1122617/m1/16/?q=%221997~%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mexic-Arte Museum.