Luis Buñuel
19001983
Spanish-Mexican filmmaker renowned for avant-garde surrealist cinema that blended dreamlike imagery with sharp political and social commentary
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19001983
Spanish-Mexican filmmaker renowned for avant-garde surrealist cinema that blended dreamlike imagery with sharp political and social commentary
19272014
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate, one of the 20th century's most significant authors, known for blending the fantastic and realistic in his works
18061872
President of Mexico, known for leading the Liberal victory in the Reform War and the Second French intervention, and as the first Indigenous president
18861957
Mexican muralist whose large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art
19282012
Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat renowned for his influence on the Latin American Boom and works such as The Death of Artemio Cruz
19071954
Mexican painter known for her autobiographical portraits, self-portraits, and works exploring identity, gender, and pain through a blend of realism and fantasy
19432020
Mexican chemical engineer and Nobel laureate who co-discovered the danger of CFCs to the ozone layer and the Antarctic ozone hole