Carlos Baca-Flor

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Carlos Baca-Flor

Peruvian artist

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Latin American art
Modernismo (1890–1920)
…such as the Peruvian artists Carlos Baca-Flor and Teófilo Castillo. In his paintings, such as the small oil-on-board Couple (1900), Baca-Flor built up a heavy impasto of contrasting bright and dark pigments. Castillo’s subject matter depicted the colonial legacy. In Burial of St. Rose of Lima (1918), for example, his…
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…such as the Peruvian artists Carlos Baca-Flor and Teófilo Castillo. In his paintings, such as the small oil-on-board Couple (1900), Baca-Flor built up a heavy impasto of contrasting bright and dark pigments. Castillo’s subject matter depicted the colonial legacy. In Burial of St. Rose of Lima (1918), for example, his…
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