List Of Latin American Artists
A list of notable Latin American visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video artists, etc.), arranged by nationality: Argentina * Roberto Aizenberg (1928–1996) * Antonio Alice (1886–1943) * Antonio Berni (1905–1981) * Delia Cancela (born 1940) * Graciela Carnevale (born 1942) * Elda Cerrato (born 1930) * Alicia Creus (born 1939) * José Cuneo (born 1965) * León Ferrari (1920-2013) * Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) * Alfredo Guttero (1882–1932) * Esteban Lisa (1895–1983) * Cándido López (1840–1902) * Rebeca Mendoza (born 1967) * Florencio Molina Campos (1891–1959) * Marta Minujín (born 1944) * Marcelo Pombo (born 1959) * Liliana Porter (born 1941) * Alfredo Prior (born 1952) * Benito Quinquela Martín (1890–1977) * Xul Solar (1887–1963) * Raúl Soldi (1905–1994) * Manuel Zorrilla (1919-2015) * Grete Stern (1904-1999) * Roberto Jacoby (born 1944) * Bibi Zogbé (1890-1973) Bolivia * Rodolfo Ayoroa (1927–2003), painter, printm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcelo Pombo
Marcelo Pombo (born 1959) is an Argentine artist. His work is in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the MALBA, MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, :es:Museo Castagnino+macro, the Museo Castagnino + macro, the Blanton Museum of Art of The University of Texas at Austin, among others. Work In the late eighties, he began exhibiting small works with images connected to rock, psychedelia, and "gay culture". At the beginning of his career, he formed part of the group of artists that exhibited at the Galería de Artes Visuales at the Centro Cultural Rojas under the direction of Jorge Gumier Maier; the aesthetic production that came out of Rojas was crucial to the course of Argentine art in the nineties. During that period, Pombo's work was characterized by the use of materials and procedures associated with decoration and dom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Inés Córdova
Inés Córdova Suárez (1927 – 19 May 2010) was a Bolivian artist. Biography Inés Córdova studied at the in the Sopocachi neighborhood of La Paz, as well as the in Montevideo and the Conservatorio Massana in Barcelona. In the 1960s she developed new collage techniques incorporating textiles and metal. The artist Gil Imaná confirmed the death of Córdova, who had been his wife for 46 years, on 19 May 2010 in La Paz. In April 2017, Imaná donated all of his artistic patrimony to the (''Fundación Cultural Banco Central de Bolivia''; FCBCB). This included a property in Sopocachi (on Aspiazu and 20 de Octubre Streets) and several collections comprising approximately 6,000 pieces. One half corresponds to work in ceramics, sculpture, and painting by Córdova and by Imaná himself. The other belongs to collections of contemporary painting by Bolivian and Latin American artists, colonial objects, ceramics, and pre-Hispanic Andean weavings. Murals * 1965, Mural in ceramic, Engi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gonzalo Condarco
Gonzalo Condarco is a Bolivian sculptor. His works are on display in the National Art Museum (Bolivia) in La Paz and the Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia in El Alto El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is the second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands. El Alto is today one of Bolivia's fastest-growing urban centers, with an estim .... References Bolivian sculptors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bolivia-artist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roberto Berdecio
Roberto Guardia Berdecio (20 October 1910–1996) was a Bolivian-born artist and a significant contributor to the important political and cultural art movement in Mexico during the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Berdecio was born in Sucre, Bolivia. Career Berdecio worked in New York City in the 1930s with David Alfaro Siqueiros. Berdecio moved to Mexico in the late 1940s where he continued his career in art. He painted murals and portraits, created lithographs and artistic explorations into the fourth dimension. Berdecio's personal archives, which outlined his collaboration with David Alfaro Siquieros in New York and Mexico, was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1995. He died in La Paz, Bolivia in 1996. Personal life Berdecio married Marion Davis Berdecio. In 1980, he met Susan Ribnick in Cuernavaca, Mexico. They moved to the U.S., and traveled annually to Europe and South America, where the artist's politically prominent brother, Mario Mercado, resided in La Paz La Paz () ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rodolfo Ayoroa
Rodolfo "Rudy" Ayoroa (September 16, 1927 – October 31, 2003) was a Bolivian painter and a sculptor. Background Ayoroa (also known as Rudy Ayoroa, Rodolfo E. Ayoroa, Rudy Aroyoa, Rudy Ayora) was born in La Paz, Bolivia on September 16, 1927. His parents were Esther Soria-Galvarro of LaPaz, Bolivia, and the late Gen. Robert Ayoroa. He was educated at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1964, he moved to Washington, DC and was a visiting professor at American University. In the mid 1980s he moved to Danville, Kentucky with his wife, Jane, who was born there. Art Ayoroa was at the forefront of the kinetic art movement in the mid-1950s. His paintings are filled with geometric elements and contrasts of warm and blue colors. His sculptures are made with Plexiglass bent into geometric shapes to look like perpetual motion. Ayoroa's art hangs in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Library of Congress; National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Insti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bibi Zogbé
Bibi Zogbé (1890 – 1973) was a Lebanese-born painter based in Buenos Aires, Argentina best known for her depiction of wild flora. Nicknamed “La Pintura de Flores,” or “the flower painter” in Spanish, she often painted heavily symbolic still lifes as well as portraits. She traveled widely and painted during trips to Dakar, Beirut, and Paris. Though she received relatively little recognition during her lifetime, she has begun to receive new attention as a figure in the twentieth-century Arab and Lebanese modernist art movements. Early life in Lebanon and settlement in Argentina Zogbé was born as Labibé Zogbé in 1890 to a wealthy Lebanese family. She grew up in the small coastal Lebanese town of Sahel Alma. Her father became the ambassador of Lebanon in Argentina, which had welcomed a small but significant population of migrants of Lebanese origin from 1887 onwards. While growing up in Lebanon, Zogbé attended a local Catholic school and later the Sainte Famille Colleg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roberto Jacoby
Roberto Jacoby (born 1944) is an Argentine artist and sociologist. Known for his conceptual art and social activism in Argentine politics, most of his work is collaborative such as his displays in Experiencias and participation in Tucumán Arde. Biography Jacoby was born to immigrants in Buenos Aires in 1944. He graduated from Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (CNBA) and studied sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of the so-called "generación del Di Tella" and is considered one of the first conceptual artists in the world. He is particularly known for his participation in many controversial and political exhibitions, such as " Experiencias 68" and "Tucumán Arde". In 1966, along with Eduardo Costa and Raúl Escari, he worked to promote the use of alternate mediums for art such as communications media. His work reflects this, including a vast array of mediums such as installations, performances, drawings, viewer participation, comics, photographs, vid ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grete Stern
Grete Stern (9 May 1904 – 24 December 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer. With her husband Horacio Coppola, she helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina, and presented the first exhibition of modern photographic art in Buenos Aires, in 1935. Early life The daughter of Frida Hochberger and Louis Stern, Grete Stern was born on 9 May 1904 in Elberfeld, Germany. She often visited family in England and attended primary school there. After reaching adulthood, from 1923 to 1925 she studied graphic arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Stuttgart, but after a short term working in the field she was inspired by the photography of Edward Weston and Paul Outerbridge to change her focus to photography. Relocating to Berlin, she took private lessons from Walter Peterhans. Career In 1930 Stern and Ellen Rosenberg Auerbach founded ''ringl+pit'', a critically acclaimed, prize-winning Berlin based photography and design studio. They used equipment purchased from Peterhans and became well ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Manuel Zorrilla
Manuel Zorrilla de la Torre (26 April 1919 – 12 May 2015) was an Argentinian painter, illustrator, engraver, drawer, and sculptor. His parents were Spanish immigrants. Career Zorrilla was born in Buenos Aires in 1919. From his childhood, he takes delight in painting the rural world which surrounds him. The fauna (horses) and the flora (fruit trees, flowers) are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. In 1942, he exposed for the first time together with other artists: critic noticed and greeted him as a young hope for the Fine Art. This year marked the beginning of exhibitions, greeted by the press, which remained continuous until 1980. From 1949 until 1953, he received numerous prices like the " Watercolorists and Engravers Society price ", the " National Show of Drawing and Engraving price", the " Fine Art Society of Santa Fe price", the " Fine Art Society of Rosario price" and the " Fine Art Society of Mar del Plata price". In 1954 he was elected vice-president of the Argent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raúl Soldi
Raúl Soldi (27 March 1905 – 21 April 1994) was an Argentine painter and production designer whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for their melancholy appearance. He also illustrated poetry books. Brief biography Raúl Soldi was born into an artistic family in Buenos Aires in 1905, his father was a cellist and his eldest sister studied piano and song. He began his studies at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina then travelled to Europe in 1921. He stayed in Germany until 1923 then moved to Italy to continue his studies, enrolling in the Real Academy of Brera (Milan) where he remained until 1932. Whilst in Italy, he became involved with groups of vanguard artists. He also did a lot of films as a production designer and scenographer both in Argentina and USA. In 1932, he returned to Argentina and continued to produce oils, watercolors, inks, drawing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Xul Solar
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages. Biography Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari was born in San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province, to a cosmopolitan family. His father, Elmo Schulz Riga, of Baltic German origin, was born in the Latvian city of Riga, at that time part of Imperial Russia. His mother, originally from Italy, was named Agustina Solari. He was educated in Buenos Aires, first as a musician, then as an architect (although he never completed his architectural studies). After working as a schoolteacher and holding a series of minor jobs in the municipal bureaucracy, on 5 April 1912, he set out on the ship ''England Carrier'', supposedly to work his passage to Hong Kong, but he disembarked in London and made his way to Turin. He returned to London to meet up with his mother and aunt, with whom he traveled to Paris, Turin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |