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Paraguayan Indigenous art is the visual art created by the indigenous peoples of Paraguay. While indigenous artists embrace contemporary Western art media, their arts also include pre-Columbian art forms. Indigenous art includes ceramics, baskets, weaving and threading, feather art and leather work. It is a hybrid nature includes the ...
Known for. artist. Notable work. “Geometrías”, “Asunción, los escenarios de la utopía”. Awards. Prize “Pedro Agüero”, Asunción, Paraguay. 1998. Félix Toranzos (born October 30, 1962) is a Paraguayan artist, architect and graphic designer, [1] considered to be one of the most conspicuous representatives of the new generation of ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 20th-century Paraguayan artists (2 C, 4 P)
Olga Blinder (1921 in Asunción, Paraguay – 19 July 2008) was a Paraguayan painter, engraver and sculptor. Blinder was born in Asunción into a Jewish family. [1] She lived through the Chaco War, World War II, the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War, in addition to Paraguay's coup d'états in 1954 and 1989. Blinder was also a licensed professor who ...
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Asunción[2] (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción), located on Mcal. Estigarribia and Iturbe St. in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay, displays over 650 works of art, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, photographs, Paraguayan and international artists.
Ñandutí detail. Ñandutí is a traditional Paraguayan lace. The name means "spider web" in Guaraní, [1] the official, indigenous language of Paraguay. The lace is worked on fabric which is stretched tightly in a frame. The pattern is drawn on the fabric and the threads, which go to-and-fro across the circular motif and are either taken ...
Ofelia Echagüe Vera (1904–1987) was a painter and educator from Asunción, Paraguay.She is credited as a founder of modern art in Paraguay, through her work in the plastic arts, and through her influence upon her students, particularly Olga Blinder, Pedro Di Lascio, and Aldo Del Pino, who became the vanguard of the new movement.
Ramona Ferreira, Paraguayan journalist and feminist. Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944), writer. José Asunción Flores (1904-1972), director and composer. Carlos Franco (born 1965), professional golfer. Julio César Franco (born 1951), politician and former vice-president. Julio César Franco (born 1965), former footballer. Leryn Franco ...