''Horizons'' () is a 1913 oil painting by

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. ''Horizons'' shows the idealized migrant family and it portrays a '' colono'' family –consisting of a husband, wife, and child– sitting on a bluff, surrounded by mountains. The three members of the family are often referred as a version of the

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, with the woman dressed in colors like the

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, with a baby on her lap. The gaze of the wife, child, and father are in the direction of the man's outstretched hand, which evokes Michelangelo's

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, and that points toward an unseen horizon. The painting is a part of the permanent collection of the

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, located in

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, Colombia.

History

''Horizons'' was painted in Bogotá after the painter moved there from Medellín.

References

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