Armando Morales (1927)

Professions: Painter

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  Armando Morales (Nicaraguan B. 1927)

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  Armando Morales (Nicaraguan b. 1927)

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  Armando Morales (N. 1927)

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Armando Morales Biography

(b Granada, Nicaragua, 15 Jan 1927). Nicaraguan painter and printmaker. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Managua, from 1941 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1953 and at the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, from 1960 to 1964. He exhibited extensively internationally from 1953 and in 1957 made his first visit to New York on a Guggenheim Fellowship. His first paintings treated local landscapes, still-lifes and genre scenes in a realistic vein, but the work for which he is best known constitutes two distinct phases. From the mid-1950s until the late 1960s, in Art informel works such as Dead Guerilla (Ramón Osuna priv. col.) and Ferry Boat (1964; Managua, Banco Cent. de Nicaragua), he combined figurative elements with broad abstract forms related to the work of Robert Motherwell, sombre colours and a thick impasto influenced by the work of Antoni Tàpies. In the early 1970s Morales turned to a distinctive figurative style of Magic Realism in works such as Seated Woman (1971; Managua, Banco Cent. de Nicaragua), based to some extent on the Pittura Metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico but with a subtle tonal modulation of his own. From 1982 he made his main home in Paris, where he served in the revolutionary government of Nicaragua as a representative to UNESCO. He resigned his post in 1990, when the Sandanistas lost the national elections, and established a new studio in London. In 1993 a portfolio of lithographs, the Saga of Sandino , were featured in an exhibition at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City. Among his more important oil paintings from the 1990s are the magical realist portraits of Gabriel García Márquez (1993; Gabriel García Márquez priv. col.) and Carlos Fuentes (1994; Carlos Fuentes priv. col.)

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