It was in this period that Jose decides to formally become part of the plastic artists’ community in Mexico. Mexican muralism had achieved international fame through the works of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros in the fifties and still had a very big influence on Mexican art at that time. The so called “Big Three” are still the representatives of Mexican plastic art on an international level and the legacy they leave behind is so strong that, during almost a decade, nothing new on the subject of art is defined in the country. In all this time no other artists manage to project Mexico anew as an innovating place in the world of art.
