Attributed to Luis Nishizawa, 1918 to 2014, watercolor painting. This piece is dated to 1979 and signed by the artist lower right. Luis Nishizawa was a Mexican artist known for his landscape work and murals, which often show Japanese and Mexican influence. He began formal training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican muralism movement but studied other painting styles as well as Japanese art. In addition to painting canvases and murals, including murals made with ceramics, he was a professor of fine arts at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico from which he received an honorary doctorate. Modernist Paintings And Mexican Art Collectibles.