부산대학교 도서관

(b Asunción, Jan 6, 1948). Paraguayan painter. He studied in the studio of the painter Cira Moscarda but was basically self-taught and gained his formative experience in various Latin American countries working as a designer of theater costumes and scenery. His early work, biting and irreverent in style, and with psychedelic and Pop art elements, created a considerable stir in Paraguay’s artistic community. Much of this work was in the form of drawings and paintings, but he also devised environments, happenings, audio-visual experiences, and montages (see Escobar 1984, 172, 194). His subject matter comprised unrealistic hybrid characters, animals, and objects from Classical mythology, popular Latin American subjects, kitsch opera, circus and cabaret, television, and gossip columns, portrayed in a style linked to Latin American Magic Realism and to expressionist caricature. Humor, eroticism, and the absurd animate his work, giving it a flavor of hallucination and nightmare. Blinder, O. and others. Arte actual del Paraguay. Asunción, 1983, pp. 47, 48, 49, 162, 173, 174, 192....