Félix Arauz
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Félix Arauz (born 1935, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is one of the most important painters to come out of Ecuador in the last fifty years. Arauz is among the art circles of Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís and Juan Villafuerte. Arauz studied at the School of Fine Arts and the School of Modern Humanities. During his second year his father died leaving Arauz feeling nostalgic and isolated. Arauz funneled his emotions into his work creating some of the most beautiful, heartfelt and dreamlike imagery to date. Both his use of color and his compositions are simply brilliant and leave a huge lasting impression on the viewer. Arauz's subjects usually include, abstract flower arrangements, the innocence of children, and landscapes, all of which are created with a unique dreamlike aesthetic.
Arauz paints in many mediums but his preferred method is oleo texturado, or oil paint mixed with sand. It is from the intersection of the dream and the reflection, from where Arauz's art emerges from. Each Series, each picture, elaborates with greater clarity. Very instinctively, Arauz exerts plenary session dominion through his calligraphic touch that is, without a doubt, one of the most appraised gifts of the great artists. But that gift comes with the artist, and it is necessary to take care of it, to nurture it, by means of a work destiny, and this is important in the life of Félix Aráuz. To work indefatigable, enthusiastically, every day, without truces nor lethargies, but eluding the trends to reproduce works that had demand or, to say it without euphamisms, to work summoned single by commercialist aims as it happens in many.
Félix Arauz continues to paint in his studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Awards and medals
1962, 1965 & 1969 Second Prize, National Hall October, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1963 & 1972 First Prize National Hall October, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1968 Great prize, Gold Medal National Hall Julio, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1971 & 1975 Second Prize, National Hall Julio, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1972 First Prize, National Hall October, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1981 Gold Medal of Artistic Merit, granted by the illustrious Municipality of Guayaquil.
1996 Gold Brush Cultural Association the Pains.
References
- Municipalidad de Guayaquil - www.guayaquil.gov.ec/data/salondejulio/antecedentes.htm
- http://www.artecuatoriano.com/paginas/pintur11.htm
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