Omar Rayo Signed Intaglio Etching w/ Collage,

Artist: Omar Rayo, Colombian (1928 - )
Title: Inuqui II
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Intaglio Etching with Collage on handmade paper, signed in pencil
Edition: AP
Paper Size: 30" x 22.5"


OMAR RAYO Colombian (1928- )

Painter, caricaturist, engraver and Colombian designer ascribed to the movement Op Art. In their works he believes lines and angles that form big abysses. He studied drawing for correspondence in the Academy Zier of Buenos Aires. In a tour for Colombia and Latin America recognized in the primitivism an authentic expression form. One of their 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 was 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, that of the Museum of Art of Philadelphia (1965), that of the XIX and XXI living rooms of Colombian Artists (1966 and 1970), that of the Biennial one of São Paulo (1971), among others. He has published the books Blind Knot (1974) and recent Works (1994)