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Sep 27, 2017 · Groundbreaking Latin artists who aren’t Frida Kahlo. With over 116 women artists in one show, a new exhibition shines a light on the underrepresented contributions of Latin artists. “I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what ...
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Jul 14, 2020 · Caravaggio was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy in 1571. After losing both of his parents to the plague when he was a child, he moved to Rome and started selling his own paintings around 1595 ...
Caravaggio, a pioneer of the Baroque movement, lived a tumultuous and violent life. The nature of his early death is a mystery that has endured for 400 years. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known to history simply as Caravaggio, was one of the artists whose revolutionary paintings did much to usher in the Baroque movement in the early 17th ...
May 3, 2016 · On November 29, 1912, Alfredo Geri, a Florentine art dealer, received a letter from a certain “Leonardo” in Paris, according to historian Patricia Daniels. The letter read: “The stolen work ...
- Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) Lived and worked in Brazil. Tarsila do Amaral. Tapestry Tarsila do Amaral - Antropofagia, 2016. By Kamy. Tarsila do Amaral is Brazil’s most famous 20th-century artist, but until recently, her work received sparse attention outside of her home country.
- María Izquierdo (1902–1955) Lived and work in Mexico. María Izquierdo. Our Lady of Sorrows, 1943. "Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950" at Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Lygia Clark (1920–1988) Lived and worked in Brazil. Lygia Clark. Superficie modulada, 1952. Ronie Mesquita Galeria. Lygia Clark was one of several artists in 1960s Brazil to pioneer interactive, immersive art—an attempt to break down the boundaries between art and life.
- Lygia Pape (1927–2004) Lived and worked in Brazil. Still of Lygia Pape, O ovo, (The Egg), 1967. © Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth and the BrooklynMuseum.
Nov 18, 2019 · Lam’s famous painting La Jungla (“The Jungle”) (1943) combines Cubist forms with visual references to mythology, cosmology, and Santería. Lam died in 1982. A transcultural aesthetic scholar, juxtaposing styles and influences from various global traditions, Lam is perhaps the most syncretic artist of the 20th century.
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Famous Latin American Artists. 1. Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist who is best known for her self-portraits that often depicted her physical and emotional pain. She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico City and contracted polio at the age of six, which left her with a limp. At the age of 18, she was involved in a bus accident ...
