Dionicio rodriguez biography examples


Dionicio rodriguez biography examples

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  • Rodríguez, Dionicio (1891–1955) - TSHA
  • Capturing nature : the cement sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez
  • Rodriguez, Dionicio - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

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    Thousands of San Antonians have caught the bus on Broadway near the Alamo Heights Central Market grocery store and have sat in a peculiar bus stop that appears to be made of petrified wood.

    But few know the story behind the unique piece of ‘faux bois’ artwork, and the man who made it. The city's most accessible work of art was built at the corner of Broadway and Patterson in 1931, by Dionicio Rodriguez.

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    The bus shelter was donated to the city of Alamo Heights by the Alamo Cement company and has only been moved once, a few feet when the street was paved.

       Many are fooled when looking at the bus stop, believing that the shelter is made of petrified wood.

    Actually it's made of cement, Rodriguez's chosen medium. The artist, who was born in Mexico City in 1891, learned the unusual art form from a Spanish national who showed him a unique chemical process to make cement look like petrified wood.

    One of Rodriguez's earliest patrons was Dr. A