Biography borges jacobo
- Jacobo Borges is a contemporary, neo-figurative Latin- American artist.
- Jacobo Borges is a contemporary, neo-figurative Venezuelan artist.
- Jacobo Borges is a contemporary, neo-figurative Venezuelan artist.
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Bio
Born in Caracas the 28 of November of 1931.
Studied in the school of Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas de Caracas, up to 1950, year in which he was gotten up to the Taller libre de Arte.
Scholar to study in Europe resided in Paris from 1952 to 1956. In 1963 he obtained the National painting prize in the Salón Oficial and in 1956 he represented Venezuela in VIII the Biennial of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
Painter and incisive sketcher who works following an order of daily annotations to fix ideas that see it leaving to the step, Borges seems to refuse to also accept the professionalism in art, dedicating itself to the cinema. Often their pictures are commentaries of the real life; they are based on an anecdote and is considerable use of advertising and journalistic images that handles with satirical intention. As painter does not limit itself to express his vision and its feelings of artist, but who aspires to register situations able to make reflect beyond to the spectator of the aesthetic fact.
For the first time in our Country, a painter who aspires to even comment negative aspects o
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Borges, Jacobo (1931–)
Jacobo Borges (b. 28 November 1931), Venezuelan artist. Born in a rural area near Caracas, Borges attended only primary school. In 1949–1951 he studied painting at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Fine and Applied Arts in Caracas while simultaneously working for an advertising agency and drawing comic strips. In 1952 he won a scholarship from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as part of a promotion of its film An American in Paris to study in Paris, where he joined the Young Painters' group and developed an expressionist style with social and political implications. Upon his return to Caracas in 1956, he became a very active artist and soon held his first solo exhibition. Selected as one of the Venezuelan entries to the São Paulo Bienal in 1957, he won an honorable mention. From 1957 until 1965 he was a member of the Round Table Group and Whale Group cooperative. From 1965 until 1971, Borges stopped painting and devoted himself to theater and film design. He returned to painting in 1971, and five years later an exhibition of forty-eight of his canvasses, "Magic of a Re
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Jacobo Borges
Venezuelan artist
Jacobo Borges | |
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| Born | (1931-11-28) 28 November 1931 (age 93) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Known for | Painter, Film Director, Stage Designer |
| Notable work | Characters from Napoleon's Coronation |
| Movement | Neo-Figuration |
Jacobo Borges (born 28 November 1931 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a contemporary, neo-figurative Venezuelan artist. His curiosity for exploring different mediums made him a painter, drawer, film director, stage designer and plastic artist. Known for his ever-evolving style, there is one constant principle that unites his work: "the search for the creation of space somewhere between dreams and reality where everything has happened, happens, and may happen."[1] His theoretical approach and unique, innovative technique has won him acclaim all over the world. He has had solo exhibitions in France, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Britain and the United States. Today, he is considered one of the most accomplished artist of Latin America.[2] His oeuvre includes a rich body of paintin
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