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Moises Becerra Alvarado

Honduran artist who has received international recognition for his paintings, graduated with honors from the National School of Fine Studies at the

Myrna Báez

Puerto Rico has a rich and vibrant legacy of modernist art. While many artists have risen to prominence in this movement, the work of Myrna Báez

Pedro Barrail

Pedro Barrail works as an artist, designer, and architect. He was born in Paraguay and studied in Miami, and his work combines the traditional indigenous

Roberto Mamani

Roberto Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been

Wilson Bigaud

Haitian naive painter, born into a poor family in Port-au-Prince. He was encouraged by Hector Hyppolite, who was a neighbour, and in 1946 he began

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana but was sent away with her sister as a political refugee in 1961 after her father fell out with the Castro regime. She gradua-

Arturo Calixto Borda

Arturo Borda Gozálvez was painter, portraitist, landscape painter, writer and Bolivian activist. His paintings are framed in the symbolic movement prevai-

Candido Portinari

Brazilian painter of Italian descent. He was born at Brodósqui and studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 1918–21. In 1928 he was

Cundo Bermúdez

Cundo Bermúdez was a Cuban painter. In 1926, Bermudez was admitted at the ‘Institute of Havana,’ and in 1930 enrolled at the renowned Escuela Nacional

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mexican painter, one of the trio of muralists (with Orozco and Rivera) who dominated 20th-century Mexican art. He was born in Chihuahua, the son of