Manuel Romo Rodríguez (1920-1992) was a painter from

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. Romo received his artistic training at the Academia de Artes Plásticas of the

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, where he would later return as an instructor. Here he would become associated with other notable artists such as

Mario Moreno Zazueta Mario Moreno Zazueta is a painter, etcher and art professor born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico in 1942. He received his artistic training at the Academia Artes Plásticas of the Universidad de Sonora and at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultu ...

, Marth Petterson and Roberto Peña Dessens. His works are mostly paintings, etchings and some ceramics. His early works concentrate on landscapes and

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s. His later work concentrates on representing darker emotions such as pain, suffering and death. His work has received various awards, mostly from the Salón Annual de Primavera of the Academia de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad de Sonora. His best known works include Miniaturas and a series called Éxodo. Romo died in 1992.

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20th-century Mexican painters Mexican male painters People from Sonora 1920 births 1992 deaths Mexican landscape painters Universidad de Sonora alumni Universidad de Sonora faculty 20th-century Mexican male artists {{Mexico-painter-stub