[1] The color yellow is prevalent in his work, and his paintings often depicted the everyday lives of Latin Americans.
[1] Minero started making art at an early age and studied drawing and painting with Marcelino Carballo.
Through a scholarship granted by the Salvadoran state, he obtained the opportunity to study in Mexico with great muralists such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
[citation needed] In Mexico he studied at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and the Factory of Popular Graph.
Camilo Minero was known by the nickname "El pintor del pueblo" (English: the painter of the people), due to his leftist political ideals.