Alejandro Honda

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Alejandro Ramírez Honda (January 29, 1952 in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla), is a Mexican painter. He not only works with oil, pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink, but also does graphic design, and serigraphy. His work it can be characterized mainly as Mexican prehispanic, ethnic, nationalist, landscape, portrait, postmodernism, religious and antireligious, erotic, eclectic, fiction, and social portrait.

[edit] Mexican prehispanic

In a full fascination for the prehispanic culture of his country, Honda studies the history of the forms and means of that time, applying this to a particular contemporary vision of the pre-columbian art.

[edit] Erotic - Religious?

Although Alejandro Honda doesn`t support the gnosis, he explores the world of the Catholic icons, giving them new meanings through his own interpretations.

[edit] Beginnings

Developing a vocation for drawing in his early life, Alejandro Honda prepared for his artistic career at the INBA Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Beauty Arts National Institute). He began his career in painting and graphic design. Afterwards, he worked in Mexico City in Banamex, Cartón y Papel de México, and other notable enterprises.