Colombian Art

Colombian art has 3,500 years of history and covers a wide range of media and styles ranging from Spanish Baroque devotional painting to Quimbaya gold craftwork to the "lyrical americanism" of painter Alejandro Obregón (1920–1992). Perhaps the most internationally acclaimed Colombian artist is painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (1932).

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... Colombians have been producing art for thousands of years ... was characterized by the works of the three Figueroa, pioneers of this art Baltasar de Figueroa, the old Gaspar the Figueroa, his son and Baltazar de Figueroa, the young ... After the war of independence, in 1819, the Colombian art still is dependent of the figurative ...

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