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  2. Letras y figuras - Wikipedia

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    Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...

  3. Drawing - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.

  4. Academia de Dibujo y Pintura - Wikipedia

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    Spanish East Indies, present-day Philippines The Academia de Dibujo y Pintura (English: Academy of Drawing and Painting ) was an institution for artistic instruction in Manila , Philippines , founded in 1821 by Damián Domingo with the support of the Real Sociedad Economica Filipina de los Amigos del Pais. [ 1 ]

  5. Spanish art - Wikipedia

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    The rest of 19th-century Spanish art followed European trends, generally at a conservative pace, until the Catalan movement of Modernisme, which initially was more a form of Art Nouveau. Picasso dominates Spanish Modernism in the usual English sense, but Juan Gris, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró are other leading figures.

  6. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    The subject matter can also indicate chronology: for instance, the reindeer depicted in the Spanish cave of Cueva de las Monedas places the drawings in the last Ice Age. The oldest known cave painting is a red hand stencil in Maltravieso cave, Cáceres, Spain.

  7. Duende (art) - Wikipedia

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    Duende or tener duende ("to have duende") is a Spanish term for a heightened state of emotion, expression and authenticity, often connected with flamenco. [1] Originating from folkloric Andalusian vocal music (canto jondo) [2] and first theorized and enhanced by Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca, [1] the term derives from "dueño de casa" (master of the house), which similarly inspired ...

  8. José Guadalupe Posada - Wikipedia

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    Posada's brother taught him reading, writing and drawing. He then joined La Academia Municipal de Dibujo de Aguascalientes (the Municipal Drawing Academy of Aguascalientes ). [ 3 ] Later, in 1868, as a teenager he apprenticed in the workshop of Jose Trinidad Pedroza , who taught him lithography and engraving .

  9. Latin American art - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th and 18th centuries, Spanish art instructors taught Quechua artists to paint religious imagery based on classical and Renaissance styles. [1] In eighteenth-century New Spain, Mexican artists along with a few Spanish artists produced paintings of a system of racial hierarchy, known as casta paintings. It was almost exclusively a ...