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Evoking Place: María Luisa Pacheco's Abstract Paintings
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he early decades of the twentieth century saw the rise among Andean artists of pictorial indigenism, a figural mode of painting that aimed to expose the exploitation of the Native American population. Rather than foregrounding urban or mestizo motifs, pictorial indigenists depicted native bodies as cultural markers, suggesting that the original inhabitants of the region and contemporary native populations shared a continuous, uninterrupted history that could supplant the legacies of colonialism. By the 1940s, pictorial indigenism had lost the political clout and subversive stance that had defined it as a vanguard movement. 4 Yet the indigenists' embrace of native content and aesthetics paved the way for the next generation of Andean artists to develop what became known as "nativist abstraction." As artists embraced abstraction and the body disappeared from their compositions, titles that referenced ancient sites, native symbols, and aesthetic attributes such as patterns, colors, and textures took on new importance and became a means of conferring cultural specificity on images that contained little if any visual resemblance to place.
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Exposed to drawing at an early age through visiting her father’s architectural studio, she enrolled at the Academia de Bellas Artes Hernando Siles in 1936, studying under Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (1899-1950) and Jorge de la Reza (1901-1958). She also took correspondence courses in art. Joining the newspaper La Razón [The reason] in 1946 as a portraitist and illustrator, she soon rose to be director of the art and literary section. It was not until 1951 that she took to painting as her medium of choice. A recipient of a fellowship from the Spanish government, M. L. Pacheco travelled to Madrid to attend the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. She also frequented the studio of Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1969), a neo-cubist portrait and landscape artist interested in planes, colour and light, who, along with Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), would profoundly influence her art. Returning to La Paz in April 1952, she taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, soon becoming part of the avant-garde as a founder of the collective Los Ocho Contemporáneos, whose members dominated the mid-century Bolivian abstract art scene. After securing first prize at the Salón Nacional Pedro Domingo Murillo in 1953 and a special prize at the II Bienal Hispanoamericana in Havanain 195
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María Luisa Pacheco
María Luisa Pacheco | |
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| Born | María Luisa Mariaca Dietrich September 22, 1919 La Paz, Bolivia |
| Died | April 21, 1982 (aged 62) New Dynasty, NY |
| Nationality | Bolivia; U.S. Naturalized citizen |
| Education | Academia de Bellas Artes, Choice Paz |
| Known for | Painting, Hybrid media |
| Style | Abstract expressionism |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowships (1957, 1959,1960); Chief Prize, Village Salon (La Paz, 1953) |
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Biography
[edit]1919-1956: Bolivia, Spain
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