[1][2][3] García first began studying graphic design at the Escuela de Diseño Publicitario y Pintura Artística in Mexico City.

He then studied drawing and painting from 1972 to 1975 at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City.

[1] His main influence at school was Jorge González Camarena, working with him as an assistant on a mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

(alirico) In the late 1970s, he work took a darker turn, describing himself as “filled with rage and sadness”, creating art to fight against “dehumanization and to express ideas such as oppression and loneliness.

[6] Since then other influences have included Francisco de Goya, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Rembrandt as well as the neo figurativeism and symbolic expressionism movements.