Venezuelan Sculptors - Carlos Cruz-Dez, Gego, Julio Aguilera, Marisol Escobar, Vera Csk, Cornelis Zitman, Alejandro Colina, Jorge Blanco (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Carlos Cruz-Dez, Gego, Julio Aguilera, Marisol Escobar, Vera Csk, Cornelis Zitman, Alejandro Colina, Jorge Blanco, Jess Rafael Soto, Jos Antonio Hernndez-Dez, Juan Flix Snchez, Milton Becerra, Eloy Palacios, Alejandro Otero, Luis Alvarez de Lugo, La Bermdez, Francisco Narvez, Fernando Asin, Julio Maragall, Narciso Debourg, Juan Loyola. Excerpt: Alejandro Colina (1901-1976) was a Venezuelan sculptor . Alejandro Colina, Venezuelan sculptor, born in Caracas on February 8, 1901. Hill is one of the greatest exponents of the Venezuelan sculpture and framed much of his work within the cultural heritage of indigenous communities, with their sculptures celebrating the myths, legends, gods and chieftains of the tribes in Venezuela. He died in 1976 at the age of 75 years. His most famous work is the statue of Maria Lionza, the whole of the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas. Alejandro Colina Alejandro parents was Torcuato Hill, the natural state Falcon, and Fermina Viera, Spanish lady originally from Santa Cruz de Tenerife. She began her artistic development at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas at the age of 13 years, being their teachers and Antonio Herrera Toro Cruz lvarez Garca. For 17 years worked as a mechanic for merchant ships, and as such, traveled for more than a decade. In 1919, because back in Caracas, began to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Caracas, where their works will be exhibited and will amount to the post of deputy director of the institute. In 1920 the company decided to depart from Caracas and moved to La Guajira, in Zulia State, where it coexists with the indigenous peoples of the West of the country for 8 years. Meanwhile, many will be devoted to taking notes and studying the ways, customs and legends of the communities with which it shares. ...