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Carlos
Páez Vilaró stems from an endless nourising life of
adventures and challenge.
He consistently looked for landscapes and
culture of the different countries that impressed him
most during his trips as a source of inspiration that
enriched the works which were then transferred to
multiple canvases and paper-boards.
As
a self-taught artist, it was not easy for him to
capture the spirit of his own style with the freedom
enough to transgress and ignore stated painting rules.
His
powerful patrons included guiding principles to face
all sort of obstacles to obtain a brilliant production
that gained the recognition of so many important
people. His works are exhibited in Museums and
Galleries all over the world.
Great
Masters as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio De
Chirico, Jean Cocteau, Jean Cassou, Alexander Calder
or Andy Warhol encouraged him during his first steps
carried our beyond the bounderies of his beloved
Uruguay.
CarlosPáez
Vilaró initiated
his work in the decade of the 40´s and was greatly
influenced by another Uruguayan painter Carlos Figari.
He firstly drove his creativity towards vernacular
scenes of his native land. Country motifs, pericones
(native dance), rodeos and branding themes invades his
canvases until he decided to start with
themes related to
carnival and negroes “comparsas” (native
music and dances).
He
lived in the “Mediomundo” tenement housing, an old
large place mostly inhabited by afro-uruguayan black
people families.
His room was called “Yacumenza” and it
represented the real home of the “candombe”
(negroes musica and dance at the rhythm of drums).
Páez
Vilaró was mainly inspired by all forms of the
negroes way of life:
popular dances, laundry women, funerals,
weddings, and so forth.
The
visual feast of his paintings and his skillful style
deserved the recognition of Jean Cassou, Director of
the Modern Museum of Art of Paris, who gave him the
opportunity to make exhibitions in France, at the
Maison d’ Amerique Latine – 1956; at the Crane
Kolman Gallery, in London and at the (OEA) American
States Organization in Washington.
His
works are currently exhibited in his Workshop-Museum
in Casapueblo, Uruguay, the dazzling cultural center
that he founded on the cliffs overlooking the sea.
Detail
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