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Artist |
Oscar de Las Flores |
Title |
Untitled |
Date |
n.d. |
Medium |
Oil |
Technique |
N/A |
Dimensions |
19 3/4" x 19 3/4" |
Description |
Oscar de Las Flores Untitled, n.d. Oil on canvas, 19¾" x 19¾" Born in El Salvador and now living in Oaxaca, Mexico, Oscar de Las Flores painted this portrait of an unidentified mature woman. Although she wears a wide brimmed hat, her skin has a sheen of perspiration, perhaps due to the weather. Her dusty pink colored dress complements the other rich colors in the work. Unsmiling, she peers with confidence directly at the viewer. The artist used tripartite division to depict horizontally the land, the sea, and the cloud filled blue sky. De Las Flores also employed an overlapping perspective to position the woman in front of the background. The woman is part of the natural environment, not separate from it. Oscar de Las Flores was born in El Salvador in 1974. The artist has an extensive education and exhibition record. From 1983 to 1986, he studied art at the Universidad de Guadalajara Art School as well as having taken a correspondence art course with a Barcelona Art School in El Salvador as a youngster. In 1987, he won the Artist of the Year award at Elia Junior High School in Toronto. He pursued art at C.W. Collegiate School in Toronto, Canada, 1989 to 1993. He graduated with honors from Ontario College of Art and Design in 1997. In 2005, he trained in fresco painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in New York City. He has exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, India, Spain, and Puerto Rico. "I have been working and experimenting with multiple mediums and techniques for years, including encaustic, tempera, sculpture, and various types of painting techniques," says the artist. "I am keeping vigil as an artist and trying to record the psyche and the soul of this important time. I, like Orozco, Goya, or Kollwitz, believe in the need to directly portray that which is inhumane and immoral in society, as well as that which is compassionate and true in order to wake in all of us a sense of urgency at attending humanity's most pressing needs." |
Object Name |
Painting |
Search Terms |
Portrait Women |
Object Number |
2020.2.162.19 |
Collection |
Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. Collection |