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Mel Casas
American painter
Melesio "Mel" Casas | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1929-11-24)November 24, 1929 El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | November 30, 2014(2014-11-30) (aged 85) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Chicano Art and Writing |
| Notable work | Humanscape 62 |
| Spouse | Grace Casas |
| Website | http://www.melcasas.com |
Melesio "Mel" Casas (November 24, 1929 – November 30, 2014) was an American artist, activist, writer and teacher.
He is best known for a cycle of complex, large-scale paintings characterized by cutting wit, incisive cultural and political analysis, and verbal and visual puns that he called Humanscapes, which were painted between 1965 and 1989.
Only a few of these Humanscapes address Chicano topics,[1] though they are his most famous paintings, and "have appeared repeatedly in books and exhibitions" and "are rightfully regarded as formative icons of the Chicano art movement."[2] Many of the Humanscape painti