Word: chucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico City's No. 1 doodler last week found himself the center of an artistic cult. Tall, wrinkled Chucho Reyes (pronounced Choocho Ray-ez) is a 58-year-old antique dealer and former art teacher who claims he knows nothing whatever about painting technique ("I don't paint-I just mess up paper...
...Chucho Reyes quickly covers big sheets of Chinese paper with whorls of screaming paint representing prancing horses (see cut), proud cocks, or wooden-faced little angels. To these images, Chucho sometimes adds impressions of Adam & Eve, fallen women or skeletons. All spring from Mexican folklore...
Curious Course. Ten years ago Chucho Reyes set up a school in Guadalajara to train local children in painting, sculpture, bookbinding, glass blowing, dramatic writing, silver and tin work. Reyes himself knew nothing of these techniques, hired no teachers, ran the school in highly unacademic fashion. ("That is why they made such pretty things...
...Chucho used to wrap his students' work in Chinese paper. He began to make careless doodles on the wrappers. These attracted the attention of Diego and Frida Rivera, who often liked the doodles on the wrapping better than the artistry inside. So Chucho tried marketing them, at 5 pesos ($1) apiece. Today Reyes' swooshing pictures bring 50 to 80 pesos in Mexico, as high as $50 in Manhattan. Chucho sometimes reinforces his doodling with paint splashes, animal footprints or droppings from his two pet doves...
...Mexico City's El Patio nightclub last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso