Eduardo Kingman |
 Jan 14 2009, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE Eduardo Kingman (February 3, 1913 - 1998) was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas.
Kingman first studied under Victor Mideros at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in Quito. Further studies took him to Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and finally to San Francisco Art Institute, California (1945-1946). Americans first became acquainted with Kingman's art in 1939, when he assisted Camilo Egas with the paintings and decorations for the Ecuadorian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. For a period of twenty years, Eduardo Kingman held the post of principal professor at Quito's, Escuela de Belles Artes as well as Director of the Museo de Arte Colonial de Quito. In 1940, Kingman founded the Caspicara Gallery in Quito. At this time and later his original prints and paintings were exhibited internationally in such cities as Paris, Washington, San Francisco, Mexico City, Caracas and Bogotá. Near the end of his career, Kingman was honoured with a one man exhibition of his art at the United Nations, New York. A unifying theme of Kingman's paintings, lithographies and woodcuts is the plight of Ecuador's indigenous peoples. Kingman was also active as a writer and social activist. |
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Jan 14 2009, 01:22 PM
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 I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
i like him. i like the 1st, 2nd and 4th the best. i prefer him to oswaldo guayasamin anyday.
i like this one as well |
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Jan 14 2009, 02:07 PM
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One of the Marines I work with just purchased an original Guayasamin and is on his way to purchasing Unidad (the last painting) from Vanderbilt. That's going to cost a nice stack.
I plan on buying prints. Not because I'm cheap, but because I can't afford dropping $50,000 on a piece of artwork at this time in my life, lol. What I do admire about artists from Ecuador is that they paint hands to reflect pain and hardship, no matter how beautiful the entire piece is. (I lurk the Art subforum like it's nobody's binness.) |
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