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Acuna, Luis Alberto  

Colombian, 20th century, male.

Born 1904, in Suaita (Santander).

Painter, sculptor.

Acuna spent a period living in France, where he was a student of Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowsky, the sculptors. He began painting in the late 1920s, with still-lifes influenced by analytical cubism, sometimes bordering on abstraction. Although he adhered to the mode of muralism that came from Mexico, he simultaneously opposed all forms of academicism. As an art historian and critic, Acuna was one of the propagators of European forms of expression in Latin America. He first exhibited in ...

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Affani, Garibaldi  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Died 1917, in Buenos Aires.

Sculptor.

Affani produced several monuments, including the one of Nicolas Avellaneda in Buenos Aires. The museum in Buenos Aires holds some of his works.

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Aleijadinho  

Brazilian, 18th century, male.

Born c. 1738, in Vila Rica (now Ouro Prêto), Minas Gerais; died 18 November 1814, in Villa Rica.

Sculptor.

Aleijadinho studied European style from engravings and prints in contemporary journals of architecture. He was fascinated by the elaborate Rococo style and southern German religious representations. He was given the nickname Aleijadinho (the little cripple) because of an illness that progressively destroyed his fingers and toes from ...

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Alvarado, Daniel  

Ecuadorean, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born in Cuenca, Equador.

Sculptor.

Daniel Alvarado exhibited a wooden bust at the decennial exhibition of fine arts in Paris in 1900.

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Alvarez, Domingo  

Venezuelan, 20th century, male.

Born 1935, in Santo Domingo.

Environmental artist, sculptor.

Domingo Alvarez was an architect and his sculptural work was limited to the creation of practical environments, a form of plastic expression that was characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Amadeo, Frederico E.  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born in Buenos Aires.

Painter. Figures.

Amadeo may also have been a sculptor. He exhibited in Paris, during one or several periods in France, in 1913 and 1921 at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

Bayonne (Mus. Basque): Pelota Players...

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Andina, Emilio  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born 28 May 1875, in Buenos Aires; died 16 April 1935, in Buenos Aires.

Sculptor.

Andina began his art studies in Buenos Aires, then continued them at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he was the student of Bignami and the sculptor Enrico Butti. He also attended the Royal Institute in Rome. His sculptures were shown after his death in the following exhibitions: ...

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Andrade Torre, Daniel  

South American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in Ecuador.

Sculptor.

Andrade Torre took part in the Exposition Universelle of 1900, with a bust sculpted in wood.

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Arcay, Wifredo  

Cuban, 20th century, male.

Born 1925, in Havana.

Painter, sculptor, engraver.

Arcay was a student at the academy of fine arts in Havana, where he won first prize for sculpture. He went to Paris in 1949. From 1950 to 1952, he was a student at Dewasne's and Pillet's studio for abstract art in Montparnasse. He began to exhibit at collective events in ...

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Arden Quin, Carmelo  

Uruguayan, 20th century, male.

Born 16 March 1913, in Rivera; died 27 September 2010.

Painter, sculptor.

Grupo Madi.

Arden Quin pursued classical studies in Brazil until 1930, taking long walks through the forests of Brazil and Argentina. From 1932, while studying law he began to study and practise painting. In ...

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Arias, Virginius  

Chilean, 19th – 20th century, male.

Sculptor.

Virginius Arias took part in the Paris Salon on several occasions. He obtained two honourable mentions, in 1882 and 1883, a third-class medal in 1887 and a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889.

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Asis, Antonio  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born 1932, in Buenos Aires.

Painter, sculptor.

Op Art, Kinetic Art.

Asis was a student at the national school of fine arts in Buenos Aires between 1946 and 1950. He then took up a teaching post there. He settled in Paris in ...

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Assis, D. Nicolina de  

Brazilian, 19th – 20th century, female.

Sculptor.

A student of Rodolpho Bernardelli, Assis exhibited two interesting studies - Head of a Woman and Young Girl Sleeping- in Rio de Janeiro in 1902.

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Avendano, Ernesto Soto  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born 1886, in Buenos Aires.

Sculptor.

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Aznar, Juán Carlos  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born 7 June 1937, in Bragado.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman.

Aznar studied in Buenos Aires, then exhibited in Paris at the 1965 Biennale, at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture and the Salon Comparaisons. His small figures, which are painted in a child-like style, place his work in the category of so-called Naïve art....

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Bacardi-Cape, Mimi  

Cuban, 20th century, female.

Born in Cuba.

Sculptor.

Bacardi-Cape was a student of Landowski and Bouchard. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1914.

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Badii, Libero  

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Born 1916, in Italy; died 2000, in Buenos Aires.

Sculptor.

Having settled in Argentina in 1927, Badii studied at the school of fine arts in Buenos Aires and obtained a scholarship that enabled him to travel in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador in ...

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Balarin, Igor  

Peruvian, 20th century, male.

Active in France in 1968.

Born 7 August 1945, in Lima.

Sculptor, draughtsman. Figures, birds.

Igor Balarin first studied architecture at the University of Valparaíso and then sculpture under the Argentinian sculptor Carlos de la Carcova. He works in metal, favouring dynamic, slender forms with silhouettes that suggest human beings and animals....

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Baranek, Frida  

Brazilian, 20th century, female.

Sculptor, assemblage artist.

Baranek has taken part in collective exhibitions, such as the São Paulo Biennale in 1989.

Farias, Agnaldo: ‘Brésil: petit manuel d'instructions’ in Art Press n°221, periodical, Paris, February 1997.

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Barbosa da Silva, José  

Brazilian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in France.

Born 19 August 1948, in Olinda.

Engraver, sculptor.

José Barbosa da Silva's father was a carpenter and taught him woodwork, which was to prove influential in his later work.

Folklore and the popular and religious art of his country are common features in Barbosa da Silva's engravings and low reliefs. Most typical of his work are small, engraved caskets showing connections with fetishism....