부산대학교 도서관

(b Asunción, Jul 31, 1891; d Asunción, 1983). Paraguayan painter. He was self-taught as a painter and began to work towards the end of the 1920s in a naturalistic style, which by the 1950s gradually became more individual. Traditionally considered a naive painter, in reality his apparently straightforward style had a complexity difficult to classify stylistically; his formal and technical resources were very varied. He painted with small rapid flecks, emphasizing contours with thick lines; his figures were modeled and painted flat, using methods similar to those of Pop art, and he employed the imagery of the mass media, 19th-century allegories and various forms of Latin American kitsch. His oil paintings constitute a minutely detailed narrative document of the character of the old city of Asunción in the first half of the 20th century. Blinder, O. and others. Arte actual en el Paraguay. Asunción, 1983, pp. 50, 99, 174.Escobar, T. Una interpretación de las artes visuales en el Paraguay...