A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy... Read full biography
A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires. In a tour for Colombia and Latin America, he recognized in the primitivism an... Read full biography
A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires. In a tour for Colombia and Latin America, he recognized in the primitivism an authentic expression form. One of the most celebrated exhibitions is the one carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar... Read full biography
A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires. In a tour for Colombia and Latin America, he recognized in the primitivism an authentic expression form. One of the most celebrated exhibitions is the one carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar Rayo". In 1981 he founded in the municipality of Roldanillo (it Fences of the Cauca) the Museum Omar Rayo, possessor nowadays of one of the best collections of Latin American artists, and of the best in their work. Along their career he has carried out... Read full biography
A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires. In a tour for Colombia and Latin America, he recognized in the primitivism an authentic expression form. One of the most celebrated exhibitions is the one carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar Rayo". In 1981 he founded in the municipality of Roldanillo (it Fences of the Cauca) the Museum Omar Rayo, possessor nowadays of one of the best collections of Latin American artists, and of the best in their work. Along their career he has carried out cartoons, engravings, and it has cultivated the pure geometric abstraction*. The Schell are among the numerous pri... Read full biography
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About Omar Rayo: Books
Books & Publications (8)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970
1988
Quirarte, Jacinto
343 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection