Alejandro Obregón
Alejandro Obregón, (full name: Jesús Alejandro Obregón Roses; born June 4, 1920 in Barcelona, † April 11, 1992 in Cartagena de Indias ) was a Colombian- Spanish painter.
Life
Obregón was born in 1920 in Barcelona and Catalan emigrated six years later with his parents in the Colombian Barranquilla. Already in 1929 the family moved back to Barcelona. From 1930 to 1934 he studied at Stony Hurst College in Liverpool and a further two years in Boston in the U.S.. In 1936, he interrupted his studies and worked until 1938 for the textile company his family in Barranquilla. He then worked as a driver and interpreter for the oil companies in the Catatumbo. In 1939 he took the studies in Boston again. As Colombian Vice-Consul he lived from 1940 to 1944 again in Barcelona. In 1942 he assisted in the Academia de la Llotja and was beyond free painting classes. In 1944 he returned to Columbia and taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Bogotá. In 1945, he presented for the first time from the National Library in Bogotá. His paintings often have political motives. A year later he settled in Barranquilla. In 1947, he received in his workshop Le Corbusier, who but expressed little euphoric about Obregón works. 1949 Obregón moved to France. After a short visit to Paris, he settled until 1954 in Avignon. There he works geometrically and clear with influences of cubism. He returned to Columbia and settled in Cartagena, where he worked with Guillermo Wiedemann, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Enrique Grau and Ricardo Gómez Campuzano. Mid-20th century it was part of the Grupo de Barranquilla, a group of writers, painters and philosophers, including Gabriel Garcia Márquez. 1957-1958 Obregón traveled through France and the United States. In 1958 he gave the geometries in his works and turned increasingly expressionistic techniques.
Obregón was buried in the family mausoleum at the General Cemetery of Barranquilla.
Awards
Works
- Some works has the Museo Nacional de Colombia
- Barracuda, 51 cm x 76.4 cm, Acrylic
- Composition, 20 cm x 97 cm, oil on canvas
- Cóndor de los Andes (1959 )
- Estudiante muerto (1957 )
- Flor de mangle ( around 1966 ), 30.5 cm x 23.2 cm, oil on wood on metal plate
- Ganado ahogándose en el Magdalena (1955 )
- Masacre (1948 ), oil
- Nube Gris ( 1948)
- Untitled ( 1982), 39.6 cm x 49.8 cm, acrylic on canvas
- Pez Dorado (1947 )
- Simbología de Barranquilla ( 1956)
- Telecóndor, sculpture in Barranquilla
- Toro Condor (1960 )
- Velorio. Estudiante fusilado (1956 ), oil, discusses the murdered student unrest on 8 and 9 June 1954 in Colombia