South America Archives

Edgar Negret

Colombian sculptor. He was born in Popayán and studied at the School of Fine Arts, California, 1938–43. His career was spent mainly in Bogotá, but

Pedro Barrail

Pedro Barrail works as an artist, designer, and architect. He was born in Paraguay and studied in Miami, and his work combines the traditional indigenous

Roberto Mamani

Roberto Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been

Arturo Calixto Borda

Arturo Borda Gozálvez was painter, portraitist, landscape painter, writer and Bolivian activist. His paintings are framed in the symbolic movement prevai-

Candido Portinari

Brazilian painter of Italian descent. He was born at Brodósqui and studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 1918–21. In 1928 he was

Joaquín Torres García

Uruguayan painter and art theorist, born in Montevideo. Most of his life was spent in Spain, to which he moved with his family in 1891 (his mother was

Gyula Košice

Argentinian sculptor and Kinetic artist. He was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), as Fernando Fallik and moved to Argentina with his parents

Lucio Fontana

Italian painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, born in Argentina, the son of an Italian sculptor, Luigi Fontana, and an Argentinian mother. In 1905 his family

Oswaldo Guayasamín

Oswaldo Guayasamín was an Ecuadorian artist whose work is characterized by its Cubist-styled depictions of Latin American people. The artist focused

Pedro Figari

Uruguayan painter, born and mainly active in Montevideo. He had a versatile and distinguished career as a lawyer, politician, writer, and editor (he founded