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The Costa Rican Museum of Art (Spanish: Museo de Arte Costarricense, MAC) is an art museum in San José, Costa Rica. It opened in 1978 and holds a collection of over 6000 artworks. It opened in 1978 and holds a collection of over 6000 artworks.
Francisco Amighetti (1907–1998) was a Costa Rican painter. In addition to his paintings, Amighetti also produced wood engravings, poetry and works of art criticism. He based his artwork on basic lifestyle in Costa Rica. [1] He worked with Margarita Bertheau on a mural called Agriculturee. The mural was for the presidential palace and has been ...
Jorge Gallardo (also known as the Artist of the People) was born in San Jose, Costa Rica on December 12, 1924. [1] He was an artist and writer who traveled the world to improve his styles and techniques.
Many Native painters transformed their paintings into fine art prints. Potawatomi artist Woody Crumbo created bold, screen prints and etchings in the mid-20th century that blended traditional, flat Bacone Style with Art Deco influences. Kiowa-Caddo-Choctaw painter, T.C. Cannon traveled to Japan to study wood block printing from master printers.
José Jesús Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría (December 27, 1912 – August 9, 1998 [1]) was a Costa Rican-born Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture. [2] Journalist Fernando González Gortázar lists Zúñiga as one of the 100 most notable Mexicans of the 20th century, [ 3 ] while the Encyclopædia Britannica calls him ...
Moreover, Costa Rica accepted many refugees from various other Latin American countries fleeing civil wars and dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s – notably from El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Cuba and recently from Venezuela. Currently immigrants represent 9% of the Costa Rican population, the largest in Central America and the Caribbean.
Dinora(h) Bolandi Jimenez (1923 – 2004) was a Costa Rican artist. She studied in the United States, taught at the University of Costa Rica and created hundreds of paintings. She won the leading national prize for art in 1990.
Arts organizations based in Costa Rica (2 C) P. Performing arts in Costa Rica (3 C) Photography in Costa Rica (1 C) W. Works by Costa Rican people (4 C)