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    Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian painter of indigenous Quechua descent who demonstrated an early talent for art. He studied painting and sculpture in Quito and held his first exhibition in 1942, representing a confrontation with the classical styles of his time. Guayasamin was interested in social and political themes, inspired by events like a civic uprising and the oppression of indigenous peoples. He traveled extensively in Latin America and the US, meeting other artists like Orozco, Neruda, and gaining the support of Nelson Rockefeller. His works emphasized social themes through simplified forms.

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    Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian painter of indigenous Quechua descent who demonstrated an early talent for art. He studied painting and sculpture in Quito and held his first exhibition in 1942, representing a confrontation with the classical styles of his time. Guayasamin was interested in social and political themes, inspired by events like a civic uprising and the oppression of indigenous peoples. He traveled extensively in Latin America and the US, meeting other artists like Orozco, Neruda, and gaining the support of Nelson Rockefeller. His works emphasized social themes through simplified forms.

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    Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian painter of indigenous Quechua descent who demonstrated an early talent for art. He studied painting and sculpture in Quito and held his first exhibition in 1942, representing a confrontation with the classical styles of his time. Guayasamin was interested in social and political themes, inspired by events like a civic uprising and the oppression of indigenous peoples. He traveled extensively in Latin America and the US, meeting other artists like Orozco, Neruda, and gaining the support of Nelson Rockefeller. His works emphasized social themes through simplified forms.

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    Oswaldo Guayasamin

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    Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian painter of indigenous Quechua descent who demonstrated an early talent for art. He studied painting and sculpture in Quito and held his first exhibition in 1942, representing a confrontation with the classical styles of his time. Guayasamin was interested in social and political themes, inspired by events like a civic uprising and the oppression of indigenous peoples. He traveled extensively in Latin America and the US, meeting other artists like Orozco, Neruda, and gaining the support of Nelson Rockefeller. His works emphasized social themes through simplified forms.

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    Oswaldo Guayasamin

    This Ecuadorian painter had


    indigenous origins, his father
    was a Quechua Indian and
    his mother was mestizo.
    Guayasamín was the eldest
    of ten siblings and from an
    early age he demonstrated
    his love and talent for art. So
    much so that at
    approximately eight years of
    age he made caricatures of
    his teachers and schoolmates.
    Despite the opposition shown by his father towards his artistic vocation,
    Guayasamín entered the School of Fine Arts in Quito, during which stage he
    built his own style based on certain social and personal events that would mark
    his life. . An example of this was the death of a friend due to a civic uprising
    against the elected president Neptalí Bonifaz in 1931. This fact would serve as
    a source of inspiration for Guayasamín in his work "Los niños muertos", in
    which part of his vision of people and society in general.
    In 1941, the famous artist obtained his diploma as a painter and sculptor, after
    having studied architecture. Later in 1942 he held his first exhibition at the age
    of 23, in the city of Quito. The first criticisms obtained demonstrated as a
    common element that the first exhibition of Guayasamín's works represented
    a confrontation with the classical and official positions defended by the School
    of Fine Arts at that stage. A prominent figure who was interested in his artistic
    work was the American politician Nelson Rockefeller, who would acquire
    several works by the Ecuadorian painter and would also help him in the future
    with the promotion of his art.
    Between the years 1942 and 1943 he lived for a while in the United States and
    with the money he collected he made a trip to Mexico where he met the
    prominent Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, who accepted him as an
    assistant. In the same way, he met other artists such as Pablo Neruda and also
    undertook a trip through several Latin American countries, namely Peru, Chile,
    Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, where he perceived the conditions of
    oppression in which indigenous peoples found themselves, whose theme was
    adopted by the painter in each of his works. An element to highlight in
    Guayasamín's paintings is the prevalence of the social element and its marked
    performance in the simplification of forms.

    Two representative works


    1. Huacayñan:
    It consists of the first great pictorial series or by stages of
    the Ecuadorian artist. This word comes from the Kiwcha
    language and means the path of crying and is part of a set of
    paintings painted by Guayasamín, 103 in total, while
    traveling through different parts of the American continent.

    2. The Age of Anger


    represents the second pictorial series or stage, whose theme is based on
    violence and wars, in other words what the human being is capable of doing
    against his own species.

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