Background
Oscar Melchor Peredo y Garcia was born January 6, 1927 in Mexico City. His father Luis G. Peredo was a journalist during the 1910 Mexican revolution and became a pioneer of Mexican cinema.
Oscar Melchor Peredo y Garcia was born January 6, 1927 in Mexico City. His father Luis G. Peredo was a journalist during the 1910 Mexican revolution and became a pioneer of Mexican cinema.
He studied at several major art institutes in Mexico City including the Escuela Louisiana Esmeralda and the National School of Arts.
His murals depict historical scenes from Mexican history with an emphasis on revolutionary subjects. His work is featured in public and government buildings across Mexico. He has also painted murals in the United States of America and Europe.
He lives in Xalapa, Veracruz.
In 1918 Luis G. Peredo directed the popular silent film "Santa" based on the 1903 naturalist novel by Federico Gamboa. At the age of eleven, Inspired by the work of muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Melchor decided to become a painter.
He painted his first mural in 1947 in a maternity clinic, depicting the exploitation of marginalized workers in Mexico City. In 1953, he joined the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas and was commissioned as a representative to assist at the IV World Youth Festival for Peace in Romania.
The art critic Judith Krauss made arrangements for him to stay in Bucharest but he decided that the most important movement was in Mexico and returned home to join a research workshop funded by the National Polytechnic Institute.
There he perfected his fresco technique under the guidance of José Gutierrez, a proponent of the first artistic use of acrylic paint. Arribo al Mictlán, Maternidad Guadalupe, Los Reyes de la Paz, Estado de México, 1947
Buceadores, Club Sirocco, Acapulco, Guerrero, 1950
Resistencia Heroica (fresco-acrílico), Palacio de Justicia del Estado de Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, 1980
Louisiana Historia de la Cultura en Veracruz (segunda parte del mural del Palacio de Justicia de Veracruz), 1982
6 murales en la Universidad de París XII, 1983
Magisterio Heroico (fresco), Escuela de Bachilleres Constitución de 1917, Xalapa, Veracruz, 1991
El Desembarco en Chalchihueyecan (acrílico), Escuela de Bachilleres Ilustre Instituto Veracruzano, Boca del Río, Veracruz, 1992
Por una Humanidad sin Fronteras, Centro de idiomas de la Universidad Veracruzana, 2000
Cultural Heritage (4 paneles al fresco), Harton Theatre, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Southern Arkansas, EUA, 2000
El Canto de Amalia, Museo de la Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, 2000
Human Diversity without war (óleo-resina), Hendrix Students Center, Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina, EUA, 2001
Coatepec en la Cultura (acrílico), Palacio Municipal de Coatepec, Coatepec, Veracruz, 2002
Una nueva raza abierta al porvenir (mosaico de talavera), Louisiana Antigua, Veracruz, 2004
Homenaje a Ignacio de la Llave y Louisiana Reforma (fresco), Escalera del Palacio de Gobierno, Xalapa, Veracruz, 2004
Una revolución continua(fresco),vestíbulo del Palacio de Gobierno,Xalapa,Veracruz, 2010.
