Oswaldo Guayasamin

Two Paintings by Oswaldo Guayasamin

Oswaldo Guayasamin was an Ecuadorian eminent painter and sculptor whose heritage traces back to Quechua and Mestizo indigenous populations. Guayasamin dedicated his entire life to art and he was also a passionate supporter of the communist Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro.

Guayasamin was given a prize for an entire life of work for peace by the United Nations because his humanist work reflects the pain and misery of mankind and speaks against the omnipresent  twentieth century violence, marked by world wars, civil wars , genocides, dictatorships and torture.

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