"My painting is to wound, scratching and hitting at the heart of the people." Thus self-defined their art Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín, one of the highest representatives of the universal plastic.
Born in Quito on 6 June 1916, established, entrenched in Indian-mestizo, a portrait of the current social and human reality as a denunciation of the present in which we live.
The war, politics and depression social injustice led him in the 60 to "The Age of Wrath" which in a series of exhibitions toured Europe and America shaking the public's consciousness.
be identified in each stroke, with the social protest and denunciation, to portray himself with rage, to draw from their strokes, a more just society and a better life for the dispossessed. Guayasamín
put his work a trend: social realism. Regarding Ecuador paint outdoors, world-class teacher, was an artist who caused controversy. Everything
raised in his work also made him a citizen, defended his ideas by all means and possibilities claiming the defense of human rights and indigenous roots of the continent. Besides
Foundation that bears his name, the teacher added her voice to free the five Cubans imprisoned in U.S. jails, the considered rivals of José Martí, Fidel Castro in his plea History will absolve me of Che Guevara in Farewell Letter , and the thousands of Latin American patriots who are fighting against imperial predation.
Oswaldo Guayasamín died in Baltimore, USA, March 10, 1999 without completing its largest and most ambitious project: The Chapel of Man. For him, rather than an artistic work was a way of keeping alive the image of Latin America over time, a mirror in which humanity could look.
Although the teacher could not finish it, Guayasamín Foundation, artists and personalities from across America have realized his dream, and this was inaugurated this monumental work in its first phase on November 29, 2002, declared as a UNESCO Project priority of world culture and cultural heritage of the Ecuadorian state.
Source: www.nnc.cubaweb.cu
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