Oswaldo guayasamin
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Oswaldo Guayasamin
Biography
He was born in Quito, on July 6, 1919. He graduated from the School of Fine Art in Quito as painter and sculptor. He carried outhis first exhibit when he was 23, in 1942.
He achieved in his youth all National Awards, and was credited, in 1952, at the age of 33, the Grand Award of theBiennial of Spain and later the Grand Award of the Biennial of Sao Paulo. His last exhibits were personally inaugurated in the Palace Museum of Luxemberg in Paris,and in the Museo Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, in 1995.
He died on March 10, 99, when he was 79 years old.
His work has been shown in museums in all capitalsof America and in many countries in Europe, for example, in Leningrade, Moscow, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Warsaw. He carried out 180 individualexhibits, and his production was fruitful in paintings, murals, sculptures and monuments.
He has murals in Quito (Government and Legislative Palaces; CentralUniversity; Provincial Council); Madrid (Barajas airport); Paris (UNESCO headquarters); Sao Paulo (Latin American Parliament). And his monuments include: "A la PatriaJoven" (To the Young Country) (Guayaquil, Ecuador); and "A la Resistencia" (To the Resistence).
Style
His humanist work, marked as expressionist, reflects the painand misery that the larger part of humanity has endured, and denounces the violence that every human being has had to live within this monstrous 20th centurymarked by world wars, civil wars, genocide, concentration camps, dictatorships, and tortures. He had been working on his top work “The Chapel of Man “when he died.
Biography
He was born in Quito, on July 6, 1919. He graduated from the School of Fine Art in Quito as painter and sculptor. He carried outhis first exhibit when he was 23, in 1942.
He achieved in his youth all National Awards, and was credited, in 1952, at the age of 33, the Grand Award of theBiennial of Spain and later the Grand Award of the Biennial of Sao Paulo. His last exhibits were personally inaugurated in the Palace Museum of Luxemberg in Paris,and in the Museo Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, in 1995.
He died on March 10, 99, when he was 79 years old.
His work has been shown in museums in all capitalsof America and in many countries in Europe, for example, in Leningrade, Moscow, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Warsaw. He carried out 180 individualexhibits, and his production was fruitful in paintings, murals, sculptures and monuments.
He has murals in Quito (Government and Legislative Palaces; CentralUniversity; Provincial Council); Madrid (Barajas airport); Paris (UNESCO headquarters); Sao Paulo (Latin American Parliament). And his monuments include: "A la PatriaJoven" (To the Young Country) (Guayaquil, Ecuador); and "A la Resistencia" (To the Resistence).
Style
His humanist work, marked as expressionist, reflects the painand misery that the larger part of humanity has endured, and denounces the violence that every human being has had to live within this monstrous 20th centurymarked by world wars, civil wars, genocide, concentration camps, dictatorships, and tortures. He had been working on his top work “The Chapel of Man “when he died.
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