Luis Alberto Solari (1918–1993) was a

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and engraver from

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Background

He moved to Montevideo in 1934 to study at the Circulo de Bellas Artes with Professor William Laborde between 1934 and 1937. He pursued his particular interest in etching in 1952 during a three-month course at the l'Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in

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with Professor Eduard GOERGEN. From 1967 to 1969, he took advanced courses at the Pratt Graphic Center and the New York Graphic Workshop under the Brazilian Roberto De Lamonica and the Uruguayan

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Exhibitions

He has exhibited at the Biennial of Graphic Arts in

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, Calí,

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, Krakow,

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, Biella, Segovia and

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Notable works

His most notable works, including mezzotint and

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paintings, are of human figures with

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animal masks. Their costumes reveal rather than conceal their true identities.

Prizes

Amongst Solari's many prizes and distinctions were first prizes for drawing at the Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes in

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in 1955 and 1964, the first prize for painting there in 1965 and the gold medal for printmaking at the first Bienal de Artes Gráficas in Calí,

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, in 1977. In 1989 the Museo Luis Alberto Solari opened in the city of

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, showing his works and promoting fine arts in the region.

External links

Some of his paintings on the Uruguayan national museum
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