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Jaime Andrade Moscoso
Jaime Andrade Moscoso (1913 – 23 April 1990) was an Ecuadorian sculptor specializing in realism and expressionism, along with abstractions near the end of his life. He was best known for his ability to sculpt from a wide variety of materials, including marble, wood, metal, rolled wire, and volcanic stone. He has added work within the realm of drawing, watercolor, and other murals. Life Attended the schools of the Christian Brothers, then entered the Quito School of Fine Arts in 1928, then later the New School of Social Research in New York in 1941. For a brief time he was the pupil of well known Italian sculptor Luigi Cassadio. He would then return to the School of Fine arts as a professor. In 1954 for 2 years he was the director of the Art Department of the St. Louis Country Day School and In 1962 Jaime founded and became a director of the Ecuadorian Institute of Folklore. Works * ''Llacta Mama'' (1940) * ''El Arbol'' (1940) * ''Sculpture of the Western Hemisphere'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes, at an elevation of , making it the second-highest capital city in the world.Contact Us " TAME. Retrieved on 14 March 2010. Quito is the political and cultural center of Ecuador as the country's major governmental, administrative, and cultural institutions are located within the city. The majority of transnational companies with a presence in Ecuador are headquartered there. It is also one of the country's two major industrial centers—the port city of |
Ecuadorian Institute Of Folklore
Ecuadorians ( es, ecuatorianos) are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Ecuadorian''. Numerous indigenous cultures inhabited what is now Ecuadorian territory for several millennia before the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth century. The Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador is one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. The Valdivia culture is another well-known early Ecuadorian culture. Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, as did sub-Saharan Africans who were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic by Spaniards and other Europeans. The modern Ecuadorian population is principally descended from these three ancestral groups. As of 2010, 77.4% of the population identified as "Mestizos", a mix of Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry, up from 71.9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
