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The life, art, and legacy of Oswaldo Guayasamin

The childhood of Oswaldo Guayasamin

The story of the talented artist begins on July 6, 1919. He was born in Quito. Being the eldest child in a large and poor family, Oswaldo Guayasamin did his best to help his family. He learned the basics of painting in early childhood and improved his skills gradually. One of his early achievements in art were detailed, comical sketches of his school teachers and friends.

Not much is known about his family. His mother, Dolores Calero, was an owner of a small store. She was the main inspiration on why Oswaldo Guayasamin started to paint and eventually achieved his brilliant career. His father, Jose Miguel, was a hard-working carpenter and did his best to support his large family. He continued his life as a taxi and truck driver.

The mother’s death was the first emotional strike in his childhood, but not the last one. He observed the society to understand the reason for the colossal inequality it had. The level of poverty, indigenous oppression, and social strife affected Guayasamin. It was unbe

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Oswaldo was born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, on July 6, 1919. He graduated from the School of Fine Art in Quito as painter and sculptor. He carried out his first exhibit when he was 23.The success in 1941 of his first solo exhibition captured the attention of the collector Nelson Rockefeller who bought many of his paintings and helped him exhibit his work in the U.S. He achieved in his youth all National Awards, and was credited, in 1952, at the age of 33, the Grand Award of the Biennial of Spain and later the Grand Award of the Biennial of Sao Paulo. His last exhibits were personally inaugurated in the Palace Museum of Luxemberg in Paris, and in the Museo Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, in 1995.

He has executed murals in Ecuador. Venezuela, and Spain. He lived in Quito, Ecuador until his death March 10, 1999, when he was 79 years old.

His work has been shown in museums in all capitals of America and in many countries in Europe, for example, in Leningrade (L'Ermitage), Moscow, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Warsaw. He carried out 180 individual exhibits, and his

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Guayasamín, Oswaldo (1919–1999)

Oswaldo Guayasamín (b. July 1919, d. 10 March 1999), Ecuadoran painter. Born in Quito, to a humble Indian family, Guayasamín demonstrated his artistic talents at an early age. In 1932 he began studies at Quito's National School of Fine Arts, graduating with honors in 1941. In the following year he had his first solo exhibitions, in Quito and Guayaquil. In 1943, Guayasamín received an invitation through Nelson Rockefeller, who worked for the State Department, to visit the United States. This gave him the opportunity to study firsthand the works of masters like El Greco, Francisco Goya, and Pablo Picasso. The Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, whom Guayasamín met and worked with for a brief period in 1943, had a major impact on the development of his painting, especially on the expressive distortions of the human figure. In fact, throughout decades of prolific work—in painting, drawing, and printmaking—Guayasamín's main pictorial subject has been the human figure, rendered in isolation or as a part of epic scenes, a symbolic carrier of the a