In the forties, Pablo Picasso held a huge exhibit in Mexico City with the support of the Museum of Modern Art of New York, and thanks to the efforts of the director at that time, Alfred Barr and the enthusiasm of Inés Amor, José Chávez Morado and other Mexicans. Noteworthy examples of the neoclassic period of the painter, such as El rapto of 1920 were shown at that time, which served to confirm his increased influence on the production of many painters in Mexico, including Raúl Anguiano, many of whose paintings and drawings show the decided influence of Picasso and his work, especially El Guernica. Anguiano began his education in his native state of Jalisco, a region of Mexico that, as has been seen in the comments on other painters, was a breeding place for artists. He experimented with several different artistic stages of modern Mexican painting, and the different models and sources, internal and external, which fed his artistic vision as can be seen in his artistic production. If Picasso inspired his subject of the circus, his was not that of a joie de vivre, but rather of the indelible balance between fiction and reality, bordering on the postulates of Surrealism, to which Anguiano was also drawn at one point in his artistic career.

Vide Justino Fernández. Raúl Anguiano. Mexico, Ediciones de Arte, 1948.