Oswaldo Guayasamin

Spanish name: Mascara de Niño, Translation: Child's Head Handmade polished brass sculpture based off of Oswaldo Guayasamín's "Niño" sculpture created for the artists museum in Quito, Ecuador. Stamped with makers mark, Taller Tinta...

A striking vintage brass bird sculpture designed by renowned Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999) and produced by Taller Guayasamín, the artist’s studio workshop. This sc...

Fantastic solid brass rooster sculpture by Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-1999). This piece has multiple attachments that make a lovely dinging noise similar to a wind ch...

Owaldo Guayasamin bronze sculpture Bronze sculpture of a woman's head The sculpture is in excellent condition, as seen in the photo. A single piece of bronze brass work It has its or...

Oswaldo Guayasamín creates a soulful and insightful portrait of a young black girl. The artist is known for his sensitive depictions of the raw human condition, systemic injustice, a...

For your consideration, a vintage modernist kinetic pendant or brooch designed by the renowned Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999). Guayasamín, primarily known as a mast...

Oswaldo Guayasamín (July 6, 1919 – March 10, 1999) was an Ecuadorian painter and sculptor of Kichwa and Mestizo heritage. Biography Early life Guayasamín was born in Quito, Ecuador,to a native father and a Mestiza mother, both of Kichwa descent. His family was poor and his father worked as a carpenter for most of his life. Oswaldo Guayasamín later worked as a taxi and truck driver. He was the eldest of ten children in his family. When he was young, he enjoyed drawing caricatures of his teachers and the children that he played with. He showed an early love for art. He created a Pan-American art of human and social inequalities which achieved international recognition. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Quito as a painter and sculptor. He also studied architecture there. He held his first exhibition when he was 23, in 1942. While he was attending college, his best friend died during a demonstration in Quito. This incident would later inspire one of his paintings, Los Niños Muertos (The Dead Children). This event also helped him to form his vision about the people and the society that he lived in. Career Guayasamín started painting from the time he was six years old. He loved to draw from that age. Starting from watercolors and transforming all the way through to his signature humanity pieces, his art career had many highlights. Although tragedy molded Guayasamín's work, it was his friend's death that inspired him to paint powerful symbols of truth in society and injustices around him. While his interest was seldom with his school work, he began selling his art before the time that he could even read. After his attendance at the School of Fine Arts in Quito, his career took off. La Galería Caspicara, an art gallery opened by Eduardo Kingman...