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List Of Colombian Artists
This is a list of Colombian artists. Colombian art has 3,500 years of history and covers a wide range of media and styles ranging from Quimbaya gold craftwork and Spanish Baroque devotional painting to modern Colombian cinema and conceptual art movements. A *Julio Abril, sculptor and painter * Olga de Amaral (born 1932), textile artist * Débora Arango (1907–2005), painter * Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt (1919–1995), sculptor B *Fernando Botero (1932–2023), painter and sculptor C * Antonio Caro, painter and mixed media artist *Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, painter * Olga de Chica (1921–2016), Primitivist painter * Juan Fernando Cobo painter and sculptor * Antonio Acero de la Cruz (c. 1600–1668), painter and poet * Claudia Cuesta, installation artist D * Danilo Dueñas (born 1956), painter E * Juan Manuel EchavarrÃa (born 1947), video and photography * Jesús MarÃa Espinosa (1908–1995), painter * Miguel de la Espriella (born 1947), painter and sculptor F * Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julio Abril
Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga (20 August 1911 – 24 April 1979) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and draughtsman. Biography Beginnings in the arts Julio Abril was born in Moniquirá on 20 August 1911. He studied in 1928 at the Salesian school Central Technical Institute of Bogotá and during 1929 was the student of Colombian cartoonist Lisandro Serrano's mother in Moniquirá. In 1933 he completed his studies at the school founded by the prominent educator Alfonso Ramirez who in timely fashion stimulated the budding artist in Abril. From 1934 to 1939, on scholarship from the Department of Boyacá he studied sculpture under the direction of artists Gustavo Arcila Uribe, José Domingo RodrÃguez and Carlos Reyes (artist), Carlos Reyes at the School of Fine Arts of the National University in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1936 he held his first exhibition where he presented his wood sculpture ''Cabeza de India'' (Head of an Indian Woman) (1936), which was comprehensively comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miguel Gómez (photographer)
Miguel Gómez (March 29, 1974 - November 12, 2024) was a Colombian-American photographer and visual artist, based in New York City, whose style was marked by/best known for his work in fine art photography, portrait, editorial and landscape photography. Gómez worked between London and New York City. Early life and education He completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio San Carlos, a bilingual private school which he attended from 1981 to 1992 in Bogotá, Colombia. After graduating from high school, Gómez enrolled in the Architecture School of Bogotá's Universidad de Los Andes and eventually continued and completed his studies at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University from 1994 to 1999, earning a Professional (Bachelor of Arts) Degree in Advertising with an emphasis in Graphic Design. While at advertising school, Gómez decided to put all his efforts into pursuing a career in photography. However, his work in the medium dates as early as 1989, when he was 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Leo Matiz
Leonet Matiz Espinoza (April 1, 1917 – October 24, 1998) was a Colombian photographer, caricaturist, newspaper publisher, painter and gallery owner. Early life Matiz was born in the small village of Aracataca in the Magdalena Department of Colombia to father Tulio Matiz and mother Eva Matiz. His hometown is also the birthplace of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. He travelled widely and sold caricatures and illustrations to earn a living. In 1951, Matiz's gallery hosted the first exhibition of Colombian artist Fernando Botero with a showing of his paintings at the Bogotá gallery. Career Matiz was known for his sense of style including a thick slightly long hair, colored jackets, and gangster style mustache. He had a robust laugh and carried his caricatures and drawings in a folder. He was at the center of the bohemian intellectualism of Bogotá, Caracas, Mexico City and other Latin American capital centers. He photographed Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Esther Williams, Janice Logan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Santiago MartÃnez Delgado
Santiago MartÃnez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, illustrations and woodcarvings. MartÃnez attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Ruth VanSickle Ford. In 1933, he was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts for his mural at the "Century of Progress" International Exhibition in Chicago. During these years in Chicago, he produced various illustrations for Esquire Magazine and participated in the Federal Art Project. MartÃnez was a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, where he began to experiment with the Art Deco style. In Colombia, MartÃnez was awarded the gold medal in the 1940 Salón de Artistas Colombianos and was again awarded the top prize in 1941. In 1947, Martinez Delgado painted the mural at the ''Salón ElÃptico'' in the Colombian Congress Building, considered on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Adriana Marmorek
Adriana Marmorek (born 1969) is a Colombian artist, exploring themes of desire through photography, video, installation and sculpture. Marmorek has shown her work in Colombia, the United States, Argentina, Italy and Belgium, and some of her work is owned by the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena de Indias. Marmorek was nominated for the 9th Luis Caballero Award for Contemporary Art in 2017. She currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. Early life and education Adriana Marmorek was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1969. She comes from a traditional and conservative family and studied at a catholic school. She studied Social Communication at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia from 1988 to 1992. Her visual arts career reflects some of her beginnings in the fields of television and publicity. From 2004 to 2006 Marmorek received a Fine and Visual Arts master's degree at the Universidad Nacional in Colombia. Career Marmorek developed her visual arts career as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sandra Llano-MejÃa
Sandra Isabel Llano-MejÃa (born 1951) is a Colombian multimedia artist. She is considered "a pioneer of video art in Latin America". In the 1970s and 1980s, Llano-MejÃa's video art was shown throughout Mexico and the United States. She has an interest in technology in her artwork, such as computers and medical equipment. In the 1970s Llano-MejÃa worked in xerox art. Llano-MejÃa attended in Cali, Colombia; followed by studies at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP) in Mexico City; National Autonomous University of Mexico; and Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City. Her work can be found in the museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art. See also * List of Colombian women artists * Marta MinujÃn Marta MinujÃn (born 1943) is an Argentines, Argentine conceptual art, conceptual and performance artist. Life and work Marta MinujÃn was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her mother ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
LeDania
Diana Ordóñez (born 1987), known professionally as LEDANIA, is a Colombian multimedia artist based in Bogotá. Known mostly for her graffiti murals, LeDania also works in photography, graphic design, advertising, artistic makeup, and decorative items such as clothing and accessories. Career LeDania is most known for her positive and vibrant graffiti murals, most of which locate in Chapinero, a neighborhood on the north side of Bogotá. Her graffiti often features animals and insects from Tasmania, in addition to other mythological, magical, or autobiographical symbols. Other than graffiti, LeDania's figurative works derive from three different artistic movements: expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. The Museum of Contemporary Arts of Bogotá first exhibited LeDania's artwork in 2005. Her work was displayed in 2019 at the Street Lynx Bta, a gallery space representing dozens of Bogotá-based artists. Select exhibits * 2015 Art Biennial of Paraguay * 2016 Latino Graff * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Germán Londoño
Germán Londoño (born October 12, 1961, in MedellÃn, Colombia), is a Colombian painter, draftsman and sculptor. He studied in the Libe de Zulátegui Arts Academy in MedellÃn, Colombia and as a Master in Lithography at the Scuola Internazionale d' Arte IL Bisonte, Florence, Italy. Londoño's work has been exhibited in museums such as the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Antioquia, the La Tertulia Museum and the Museum of Lisbon. He has also exhibited in art galleries in Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United States. Reception '' ArtNexus'' magazine says that Londoño uses "strategies such as humor and caricature" in his paintings to relay a narrative that "reveal the presence of a different sort of metaphysics: the farce of everyday life. In a short period of time, and from his first exhibition, Londoño has gone beyond all the premises of the transvanguardia, openly establishing his own style and shunning pre-determined formulas, to create his own univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mario Londoño
Mario (; ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the star of the ''Mario'' franchise, a recurring character in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario is an Italian plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom with his younger twin brother, Luigi. Their adventures generally involve rescuing Princess Peach from the villain Bowser while using power-ups that give them different abilities. Mario is distinguished by his large nose and mustache, overalls, red cap, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent. Mario debuted as the player character of ''Donkey Kong'', a 1981 platform game. Miyamoto created Mario because Nintendo was unable to license Popeye as the protagonist. The graphical limitations of arcade hardware influenced Mario's design, such as his nose, mustache, and overalls, and he was named after Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segale. Mario then starred in '' Mario Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Édgar Francisco Jiménez
Édgar Francisco Jiménez ( Pijiño, 1951) is a Colombian artist.''147 maestros: exposición conmemorativa : 120 años Escuela de Artes Plásticas'' 2007 "... becados por lcetex gracias al convenio de intercambio firmado con el gobierno chino de Den Xiao Ping, fueron el Tigre y Paulina, Carlos Estupiñán y el hombre del sombrero vueltiao, Édgar Francisco Jiménez, yo llegué un año después Biography He studied fine art at the National University of Colombia, in Bogotá, and graduated in 1977 and began to paint subjects of the Colombian Atlantic Coast, in oil and charcoal. In 1979 he won second prize at the first judged Regional Art Competition of Magdalena Province in Santa Marta, Colombia. After reading the novel "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by GarcÃa Márquez, he was inspired to do a series of paintings that reflected the Magical Realism presented in the novel. This work was exhibited in 1980 in the Ocher Gallery, in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1980 he went to Paris and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manuel Hernández Gómez
Manuel Hernández Gómez (19282014) was a Colombian painter and educator. He is considered one of the key figures in abstract painting in the country, and exhibited his work internationally. Hernández Gómez was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Bogotá, and served as director of the School of Fine Arts in Ibagué. Biography Hernández Gómez was born on October 20, 1928, in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied fine art at the National University of Colombia; and at the Academy of Painting in Santiago de Chile. He continued his studies at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and the Art Students League of New York. Hernández Gómez was part of the art groups Taller 9, and Nueva Generación. In the 1960s, he abandoned the figurative style of painting and dedicated himself to abstract art. In 1967, he received first prize at the XIII National Salon with his work 'flores en blanco y rojo'. Hernández Gómez was married Pilar Quiñónez de Hernández. He died on October 1, 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Enrique Grau
Enrique Grau (December 18, 1920 – April 1, 2004) was a Colombian artist best known for his depictions of Amerindian and Afro-Colombian figures. He was a member of the triumvirate of key Colombian artists of the 20th century which included Fernando Botero and Alejandro Obregón. Early life Grau was born in Panama City, Panama, just like many of the children of his time with Colombian parents, and raised in Cartagena, Colombia. He was the son of Enrique Grau Velez and Carmen Araujo Jimenez. Career A self-made artist, he was influenced by the Colombian masters Ignacio Gomez Jaramillo, Santiago Martinez Delgado and Pedro Nel Gómez. Grau studied at the Art Students League in New York City, U.S. from 1941–42, and later toured Italy, where he learned etching and fresco techniques before moving to the city of Cartagena. He won the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1957 launching a well-noted career in the arts. His associations of white, black, and indigenous figures a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
