| 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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