Sérvulo Gutiérrez Alarcón (1914 – 21 July 1961) was a

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vian artist, described by ''

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'' as "Peru’s most celebrated painter"."Doris Gibson: founder of Peruvian news magazine, Caretas"
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'', 30 September 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2009. He was initially untaught and self-educated, but then trained under the artist

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. Gutiérrez had a relationship with

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Life

Sérvulo Gutiérrez was born in Ica. He had little in the way of normal education and initially trained in Lima to be a boxer. He moved to Buenos Aires, where he focused on pottery of the

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period, establishing premises to both conserve such items as well as to manufacture new ones in the tradition of that style.Mackay, W. Iain. "Gutiérrez Alarcón, Sérvulo",
Oxford art online
(subscription). Retrieved 20 September 2009. Gutiérrez was self-taught until he had the opportunity to study in Buenos Aires for eight years with the major Argentine painter,

(1892–1971).Bethell, Leslie (1998). ''A cultural history of Latin America: literature, music, and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries'', p.426, Cambridge University Press. , . Accessed vi
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20 September 2009. He travelled to Paris in 1938, where the study of work by French artists broadened his approach away from an academic direction towards a delineated and sculptural

Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

style, which he pursued after his return to Peru in 1942. Gutiérrez' masterpiece is a depiction of a powerful and crude nude woman, ''The Andes'' (1943), representing "the unavoidable South American reality." He was not an intellectual and this may explain how the tenor of his work is that of a "direct, living testimony." His interest in sculpture was stimulated by his apprenticeship under Pettoruti, and although he did not produce many works of this kind, his sculpture ''Amazonia'' won first prize in a competition in 1942. The influence of other European avant-garde styles did not affect him, and for some time he incorporated the influence of the Peruvian

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manner in his work. Subsequently, his Expressionist tendencies intensified with techniques such as scoring the paint surface to create textural effects and heightening his colours with gestural marks of black, red, blue and green paint, leading at the beginning of the 1950s to such works such as ''Don Juan'' (1952). This direction intensified with a violent

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manner into mystical subjects, including ''St Rosa de Lima'' (c. 1960–61). Gutiérrez had a relationship with

, who was a muse to him as well as a lover.Collyns, Dan
"Peru's first 'visionary' editor"

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, 30 August 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2009. After an argument between them, he sold a full-size nude painting, which he had done of her, to a well-off businessman. Gibson arrived at the businessman's house with a photographer and, on the pretext of needing daylight for a photograph, took the painting outside and promptly drove away with it. When he later asked for its return, she responded, "I don't want to be nude in your house." He died in Lima on 21 July 1961.

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Centro Cultural Sérvulo Gutiérrez
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