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Beatriz González
Colombian artist
For the 16th-century Spanish nurse, see Beatriz González (nurse).
Beatriz González (born 1932) is a Colombian painter, sculptor, critic, curator and art historian.[1] González is often associated with the Pop Art movement. She is best known for her bright and colorful paintings depicting life in Colombia during the war-torn period known as La Violencia.[2]
Biography
Beatriz González was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia in 1932. She is the youngest daughter of Valentín González Rangel and Clementina Aranda Mantilla.[3] In the late 1950s, she enrolled in architecture school, but she dropped out only a few years later. She returned to Bucaramanga in 1958.[3] González ended up enrolling in University of Los Andes (Colombia), graduating from their fine arts department in 1962. While there, she was a student of Argentine art critic and historian Marta Traba and Spanish painter Joan Antonio Roda.[3]
González grew up in Colombia during the 1940s and 50s, while the country was plagued with vi
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Beatriz González
Considered one of the founders of Colombian art today, Beatriz González occupies a unique and distinctive position in South American art history. Growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, her work developed during a period of social and political upheaval known as La Violencia (the violence), which largely influenced her understanding of Colombian society. Following her studies in architecture and fine arts, González soon stood out from her contemporaries as one of the first painters in Colombia to draw inspiration from the mass media, inserting a dialogue between popular narratives and formal painting. She attracted the attention of critic Marta Traba who addressed her oeuvre widely in her writing. González’s early works demonstrate a pronounced critique of the diluted academicism present in Bogotá. In particular the artist resisted the shared predilection for European art, a synonym for mastery and good taste that circulated through cheap black and white reproductions.
Beatriz González’s iconic work The Suicides of Sisga I, II, III 1965 appropriated a photog
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Beatriz González
Beatriz González is an emblematic and fundamental artist from the Latin American art scene. From the beginning of her artistic career in the early 1960‘s, when she was referred as a pop artist, her works explore the sociopolitical turmoils of the violence-stricken history in postmodern Colombia. In the role of an active witness to history, the artist collects photographic images of tragic events from the contemporary Colombian press and uses them as templates for her paintings, objects and prints. Political and religious leaders, popular culture icons, but also victims of passion crimes are the protagonists of her compositions. Beatriz González is primarily concerned with memory not as a pretext for nostalgia, but, on the other end of the scale, something tightly bound to the present. Her choice of color - burgundy, blue, green, orange and purple - and technique is very related to her country. Beatriz González ironically describes herself as a "regional artist" and accompanies Colombia's strong social and political ch
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