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José García Villa [1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter.He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [2] [3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [4]
After Mr. Shaw's death in 1878, the paintings were passed to his decedents and their provenance until present is as follows: [11] 1900: Mr Luis de Navas in Madrid. The collection of Charles Deering of Chicago, on display in his residence in Sitges, Barcelona for a time before being moved to Chicago.
García Narezo made oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, but is known especially for his murals. [2] These include La electricidad al servicio de Sonora in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora and an Italian mosaic at the Plaza Cívica in Lomas de Cuernavaca, Morelos named Juego con luna (1958).
According to art critic Grace Glueck, he was "[k]nown for big, vibrantly colored paintings whose abstract imagery suggested landscape, primitive architecture and atmospheric events". She quotes him as saying that the structure of his paintings was based on "vertical thrusts or horizontal tensions and diagonal crisscrossings".
The Bewitched Man (also known as The Devil's Lamp) is a painting completed c. 1798 by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. [1] It is an oil painting on canvas and depicts a scene from a play by Antonio de Zamora called The man bewitched by force (Spanish: El hechizado por fuerza). The painting shows the protagonist, Don Claudio, who believes he ...
José García Calderón (1888 – 5 May 1916) was a Peruvian artist and writer who died in the Battle of Verdun in the First World War.He was the son of Francisco Garcia Calderón, provisional president of Peru, and the brother of noted intellectuals Francisco, Juan, and Ventura Garcia Calderon.
Francia was born in Manila, Philippines.He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with an AB in Humanities, cum laude [2] and moved to New York in the 1970s. As a budding poet in New York, he studied with José García Villa, [3] the National Artist of the Philippines for literature, at The New School and later at his private workshop in Greenwich Village.
His favorite themes were traditional in nature and he is considered a major exponent of Andalusian regional painting. In 1917, a group of artists proposed erecting a memorial gazebo in the Jardines de Murillo . The government accepted the proposal, it was paid for with funds collected by the artists, and was opened to the public in 1923.