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1919 Quito, Ecuador - 1999 Quito, Ecuador. Known for: Expressionist paintings and sculptures focused on social issues and human suffering.
The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his father's wishes and studied architecture and painting. Guayasamin is a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian (the name means " white bird flying" in Inca). He studied with Orozco and... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his father's wishes and studied architecture and painting. Guayasamin is a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian (the name means " white bird flying" in Inca). He studied with Orozco and has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at Man's inhumanities, and a similar range of technique, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism. But his subject matter, Equador, is all his own; he sees it as a tragic land. Following his... Read full biography
The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his father's wishes and studied architecture and painting. Guayasamin is a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian (the name means " white bird flying" in Inca). He studied with Orozco and has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at Man's inhumanities, and a similar range of technique, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism. But his subject matter, Equador, is all his own; he sees it as a tragic land. Following his first exhibition in Ecuador, he was invited by the US State Department... Read full biography
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Oswaldo Guaysamin, Oswaldo Guyasamin
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The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:
Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in 1919 in Quito, Ecuador. He was the oldest of ten children in a poor family. He enrolled at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Quito against his father's wishes and studied architecture and painting.
Guayasamin is a passionate, plump and indefatigable Ecuadorian Indian (the name means " white bird flying" in Inca). He studied with Orozco and has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at Man's inhumanities, and a similar range of technique, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism. But his subject matter, Equador, is al...But wait, there's more...
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