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FERNANDO DE SZYSZLO VISITANTE 1987

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Fernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar (born July 5, 1925 in Lima) is a Peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-fifties and is still today the leading plastic artist of Peru. "Visitante" is a largeacrylic on canvas painting, 40 inches x 30 inches, and was done with a vivid background, and a beautifully textured monolithic figure in the foreground that is reminiscent of De Szyszlo's habit of suggesting elements of pre-Columbiansacred imagery in his work. The painting is signed "Szyszlo" on the lower right, and inscribed "Visitante" and "Orrantia/87" on verso. Szyszlo studied at the School of Plastic Arts of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. At the age of 24 he traveled to Europe where he studied the works of the masters, particularly Rembrandt, Titian and Tintoretto, and absorbed the varied influences of cubism, surrealism, informalism, and abstraction. While in Paris he met Octavio Pazand André Breton and frequented the group of writers and intellectuals that met regularly at the Cafe Flore engaging in vigorous discussions on how they could participate in the international modern movement while preserving their Latin

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