Friday, March 4, 2011

El Museo Guayasamin. The Guayasamin Museum [but you knew that; see: you’re learning Spanish already!] Guayasamin is probably the most famous Ecuadorian artist – certainly the most famous of the 20th Century - yet I don’t recall ever hearing his name. My bad. The museum is located on a hilltop adjacent to his last home, and it features a great display of his art, which is often monumental in size and which is always ‘political’ in its inspiration. Many of the shapes and images are reminiscent of Picasso and Miro, Guayasimin’s contemporaries, but some of his constructs are his alone.








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