...in memory of OSWALDO VIGAS - Plastic Artist - Venezuela...!

Falleció [has died] Oswaldo Vigas

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Vigas
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2014/04/fallecio-oswaldo-vigas/
http://www.dillongallery.com/artists/Oswaldo-Vigas/large/#0
http://english.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140423/venezuelan-plastic-artist-oswaldo-vigas-dies
http://artesplasticasporcrisol.blogspot.ca/2012/09/oswaldo-vigas-vigas-en-papel.html
http://www.artelatinoamericanoparis.com/artistes/oswaldo-vigas/

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Asi lo recoge una nota publicada en El Universal.

Vigas ganó en tres ocasiones del premio Arturo Michelena, entre otros galardones donde destaca la condecoración impuesta en 2012 por el rey Juan Carlos I de España por su destacado aporte al Arte Latinoamericano, con motivo de la celebración del bicentenario del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de ese país.

También fue ganador del Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticos en 1952 y fue nombrado por la Universidad Nororiental Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Doctor Honoris Causa

Vigas nació en Valencia el 4 de agosto de 1926. En 1941 se mudó a Guacara, localidad en la que hizo sus primeras pinturas. Su primer trabajo importante conocido es la ilustración del Libro de Poesía (1941) en el Ateneo de Valencia. En 1943 le fue otorgada la Medalla de Honor por su obra Hojas Rojas.
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Venezuelan plastic artist Oswaldo Vigas dies
"This time, the death blow was on an unrepeatable plastic artist. Oswaldo Vigas, a true master, is dead"
The artist, aged 87, passed away in Caracas (File photo)
EL UNIVERSAL
Wednesday April 23, 2014  06:15 AM
Venezuelan painter Oswaldo Vigas, three times winner of the Arturo Michelena award, among other prizes, died on Tuesday. He was 87 years old.

"This time, the death blow was on an unrepeatable plastic artist. Oswaldo Vigas, a true master, is dead," Venezuelan author Leonardo Padrón twitted.

Vigas was born in Valencia, the capital city of central Carabobo state, on August 4, 1926. In 1941, he moved to Guacara, Carabobo state. There, he painted his first works.

In 1953, he attended a program of History of Art at The Sobornne.  Renowned architect Carlos Raul Villanueva commissioned him several murals for the Campus of the Central University of Venezuela. The artist completed the mosaics in Paris. Back in Venezuela, in 1957, Vigas held his exhibition called "Artifacts," in Caracas.

He has been regarded as one of the most important modern artists in Venezuela.
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...i must admit not being into much of ART while in Venezuela, though I did now of a few other ARTISTS...!

I LOOKED online for his famed painting "hojas rojas - red leaves"...! I must admit that I failed to locate a sample !

THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA, and Chavistas are POLITICAL ARTISTS of "junk" life...! They appear to do advanced things, while the country has had a huge exile of population, of as many that could or wanted to leave...! The real economic conditions are deplorable, midst new systems of anything, including government housing...!

A COMPLETE MANTRA of contradictions...!







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