| Octavio Ocampo
(born 28 February 1943) was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico.
He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from
early childhood. At art school, Ocampo constructed papier
mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were
used during carnival parades and other festivals. In high
school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and
the City Hall of Celaya. Ruth Riviera, daughter of artist
and muralist Diego Rivera, and Maria Luisa Mendoza encouraged
him to attend the School of Painting and Sculpture of the
National Fine Art Institute.
The talents of Octavio Ocampo are not limited to painting
and sculpture, but also extended to acting and dancing.
At the Art Institute of San Francisco, he studied all these
disciplines and pursued both a film and theater career.
In 1976, he began to devote himself solely to painting and
sculpture.copyvio He now works primarily in the metamorphic
style – using a technique of superimposing and juxtaposing
realistic and figurative details within the images that
he creates.
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