(b. 1928, Lima, Peru - d. 2015)
"Emilio Rodríguez Larraín's artisitc career is exceptional in the context of Peruvian art of the second half of the twentieth century. Trained as an architect in a period of intense debates unleashed by the onset of modernity in the late 1940s, Rodríguez Larraín quickly switched over to painting, a field that he would continue to explore -although not exclusively- for the rest of his life. Like several other artists of his generation, including Jorge Piqueras Sánchez-Concha and Jorge Eduardo Eilson, Rodríguez Larraín sought early on to transcend the locally oriented outlook that dominated the local art scene in the early twentieth century - through the rise of Indigensmo and its aspiration to define national models in art - and set out on a quest for universal forms aligned with the principles of international Modernism."
Sharon Lerner, "Claves de Lectura. Sobre la obra de Emilio Rodríguez Larraín," Emilio Rodríguez Larraín, 2016.
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