PAINTERS

HECTOR BERNABO’, ALIAS CARYBE’ 1/3 – His work has been used to illustrate novels written by such Latin American authors. Some of his work can be found in the Afro-Brazilian Museum of Salvador. He produced five thousand pieces of work, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and sketches. He became famous for his characterizations, using different techniques, of the Bahian black and …

PEDRO FIGARI 1/3 – It is estimated that during almost 15 years of his life, he had created over 4,000 paintings. He have always lived on the margins of written poetry, like the most mystical of the uncouth. His father was emigrating from Italy to Argentina when his ship sank, and swimming he reached the shores of Montevideo, where he …

LIU XIADONG 1/3 – He is a painter of modern life, whose large-scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world. He lives and works in Beijing but has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria (and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was …

AMRITA SHER GIL 1/3 – She was an Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother (sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo). An exceptional colourist, she was able to achieve special effects with colours that were unbridled and bold, in direct contrast to the pale hues in vogue among her contemporaries. Today she is considered …

VALERIANO BECQUER 1/3 – He died of liver disease. He remains in the workshop of his uncle until 1853, then barely subsisting with doing portraits. Before the date of his marriage, he made some works of great interest, as the Carlist of La Esperanza, now in the Romantic Museum of Madrid. His brief marriage failed in 1862, after producing two …