José Luis Cuevas, painter

José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017) is a Mexican painter and printmaker, and, as a member of the Breakaway Generation, was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralist movement.  Mostly self-taught, his styles and influences come from the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as of Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, were of particular thematic interest.

Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate. It is for this reason that he often distorts and transforms the human figure to the point of uniqueness.

In 1992, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum was opened in the historical center of Mexico City and includes most of his work and his personal art collection.