Colombia remembers the centenary of the birth of its painters Obregón, Grau and Porras
Cartagena (Colombia), Feb 25 (EFE) .- Colombia celebrates in 2021 the centenary of the birth of the late painters Alejandro Obregón, Enrique Grau and Cecilia Porras, who turned 100 years old in 2020 but could not be honored due to the limitations that this entailed. the covid-19 pandemic.
Obregón Rosés (Barcelona, 1920-Cartagena de Indias, 1992) built in his paintings a symbolic imagery that accompanied him throughout his life and that stands out in his pictorial work, which repeatedly shows identity traits typical of Colombian culture to which is added an incisive political and social criticism.
Grau (Panama, 1920 - Bogotá, 2004) lived his childhood and adolescence in the Caribbean port of Cartagena de Indias where black, white and mestizo cultures served as the main substrate for his work as a painter and sculptor.
His work, like Obregón's, was very prolific and together with David Manzur and Fernando Botero they were considered the four most outstanding plastic artists in Colombia.
Meanwhile, Cecilia Porras (Cartagena de Indias, 1920-Bogotá, 1971) claims in her work the participation of women in the modernization processes of art in Colombia and her paintings served to illustrate some texts of the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez and of the also writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio.
To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the artists, the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MinTIC) included some of their works in the 2021 postal issue called "Colombian Characters of All Times."
The works, which are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena and that were chosen for the philatelic printing are: "Toy" (1958), by Cecilia Porras; "Panoramic of Cartagena (1991-1996-1998), by Enrique Grau, and" Cóndor "(1959), by Alejandro Obregón.
The postal edition also includes the sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt and the writers Fernando González Ochoa and Manuel Zapata Olivella.
