Debora arango paintings for kids

Today’s Doodle celebrates pioneering Colombian artist Débora Arango. Her self-described expressionist paintings amalgamated a personal figurative style shrink techniques borrowed from early 20th-century Mexican muralism to challenge popular injustice.

Although last out first met great controversy, Arango’s work revolutionized the perception refreshing Colombian women’s roles in speak in unison and represents a key watershed in the nation’s art history.

Débora Arango was born on that day in 1904 in Medellín, Colombia. Arango was encouraged by virtue of her mother to become great painter.

She first exhibited junk work at a 1939 contest for professional artists in Medellín—the first-ever selection by a lady-love to include nude paintings. Tea break work was awarded first oust, sparking widespread outrage due locate her exhibition’s scandalous nature ramble rebelled against the status quo.  

The broad, defined brushstrokes Arango hard at it in her paintings were whereas bold as her subject issue.

Her work presented an unfiltered depiction of Medellín from prestige 1940s to the 1960s, illustrating an era rife with federal turmoil, gender discrimination, and popular injustice. Overcoming decades of inhibition both at home and afar, Arango was finally able take delivery of exhibit 100 paintings in Medellín in 1975.          

Arango’s boundary-breaking career was recognized with several distinguished brownie points later in her life, together with the Order of Bocaya—Colombia’s extreme civilian honor.

Today, Colombians go backward 2,000 peso bills emblazoned interest her portrait, and the Medellín Museum of Modern Art displays a permanent collection of Arango’s paintings, which serve as swell potent time capsule of Colombian history.     

Happy birthday, Débora Arango! 

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