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Omar Rayo

Omar Rayo (1928 - 2010) was active/lived in Colombia, Mexico.  Omar Rayo is known for Mod printmaking, painting, engraving and design.

A painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art*, Omar Rayo believes lines and angles form big abysses.  He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires.  In a tour for Colombia and Latin America, he recognized in the primitivism an authentic expression form.

One of the most celebrated exhibitions is the one carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar Rayo".  In 1981 he founded in the municipality of Roldanillo (it Fences of the Cauca) the Museum Omar Rayo, possessor nowadays of one of the best collections of Latin American artists, and of the best in their work.

Along their career he has carried out cartoons, engravings, and it has cultivated the pure geometric abstraction*.  The Schell are among the numerous prizes that he has obtained (1958), the Special of Engraving II Biennial Interamerican Mexico 1960, tha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2275 characters.]  Artist bio

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