Artist: Mario Carreño Morales
datum: 1943
Teknik: Oil On Canvas
An artist who traveled not only during his formative years but long thereafter, Cuban-born painter Mario Carreño, a naturalized citizen of Chile, painted numerous landscapes of his native land in a wide range of styles. Early on, as a figurative painter, he explored the monumental style characteristic of the work of Renaissance masters whose art he saw while in Europe. During his time in Mexico, he was influenced on a formal level by the work of the muralists. Like his friend David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carreño made use of unconventional materials such as pyroxylin. In the nineteen-fifties, his art veered toward abstraction; at the end of his life, all of those experiences gave shape to a personal brand of figuration. The simple and synthetic forms in
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