ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Guzman Aymara

Guzmýn Aymara's love for art started the moment he was born. "It comes from my ancestors," he says, "and from Puno," known as the "capital folklýrica del Perý" ("folkloric capital of Peru"). Other family members are involved in other types of art - his father played mandolin, and his brothers are also musicians - but Aymara is the only painter. Aymara always liked art. As a child, he drew on stones using different colors of soil. "There was not even chalk," Aymara recalls. He drew fish, manatees, and other animals. One drawing of a dog with many heads won him a dictionary, which introduced him to the many other cultures of the world. Aymara went to elementary school in South Cantata, a colorful community near the shores of Lake Titicaca. From 1980 to 1991, he attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes, "Carlos Baca Flor" de Arequipa, Peru. Evident in his work is the strong use of sunlight. "Perhaps my main characteristic is light," Aymara says. "Without light, my work would have no life; would be flat and lifeless. The light in paintings is very important. I come from the [secondary] school in Arequipa [Peru], where normally there is sunlight all year round. The light and shades are very distinctive, and that is what I want to [capture] in my work. Light going through the vineyards; sun that outlines everything. I take advantage of all that, since birth when I saw the first light 'til now that I am living with that light."

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Ruedas Original Oil SKU: 154488   8 x 10 + Add to wish list Dappled Sunlight Original Oil SKU: 143303   30 x 40 + Add to wish list Arriving Original Oil SKU: 155114   30 x 30 + Add to wish list