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The Solitude of Latin America" (Spanish: La Soledad de América Latina) is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez on 8 December 1982 upon being awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. [2]
Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th century.
Indochristian art (Spanish: arte indocristiano), is a type of Latin American art that combines European colonial influences with Indigenous artistic styles and traditions. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Franciscan , Dominican , and Augustinian monks extensively converted indigenous peoples to Christianity, introducing them to ...
In 2007, Martinez’s work was featured in the Latin Masters exhibition of the Nassau County Museum of Art in New York, alongside other world-renowned artists such as Frida Kahlo and Fernando Botero. Some of Martinez’s artwork has been reproduced by UNICEF. The Government of Japan has acquired two of her paintings.
Presencia de América Latina (Presence of Latin America), also known as Integración de América Latina (Integration of Latin America), is a mural created by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena and painted by Mexican and Chilean artist Jorge González Camarena, Javier Arevalo,Albino Echeverria, Eugenio Brito, Salvador Almaraz, Manuel Guillen and Hector Rodrigues.And Female model Alicia Cuevas, between ...
Votive painting go by several names in Mexico, some of which overlap with other artworks or offerings. A common name is ex voto. This phrase comes from Latin and means from the vow made. This refers to the fact that many of these paintings are made and brought to churches or other holy sites to fulfill a vow made to the religious persona.
El Rio de Luz (Spanish for The River of Light; also known as Morning in the Tropics) is an 1877 oil painting by American landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church. It is his last large-scale painting of South America, following pieces such as The Andes of Ecuador (1855) and The Heart of the Andes (1859). Like them, the painting is a composite of ...
Antipolo by Fernando Amorsolo, depicting Filipinos celebrating the annual pilgrimage to Antipolo, with the pre-War cathedral depicted in the background.. After graduating from the University of the Philippines, Amorsolo worked as a draftsman for the Bureau of Public Works as a chief artist at the Pacific Commercial Company and as a part-time instructor at the University of the Philippines. [7]