José Sabogal
José Sabogal (March 19, 1888, in
Biography
He was born in
In 1922 he married a poet and writer María Wiesse. The couple had two children: José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (1923-1983) and Rosa Teresa Sabogal Wiesse (1925-1985).
Sabogal taught at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Lima (National School of Fine Arts, Lima) from 1920 onward.[6] He served as its director from 1932 to 1943.[6] Afterward Sabogal and Luis E. Valcárel cofounded the Instituto Libre de Arte Peruano (Free Institute of Peruvian Arts) at the Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana (National Museum of Peruvian Culture).[6]
His granddaughter, Isabel Sabogal (born 1958), is a bilingual (Spanish-Polish) novelist, poet, translator and astrologer.
Indigenism
Although Sabogal's own descent was Spanish rather than indigenous, he promoted pre-Columbian culture and esthetics.
Sabogal decided to promote Peruvian art to international audiences after a 1922 visit to Mexico where he met Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.[6] These efforts were so successful that in "the field of the visual arts, the most striking phenomenon of the 1920s was the rise of José Sabogal (1888-1956), founder and long-time leader of the so-called 'Peruvian School' of painting."[8]
Written work
- Mates burilados: Arte vernacular peruano (1945);[9]
- Pancho Fierro, estampas del pintor peruano (1945);[10]
- El toro en las artes populares del Perú (The bull in the Peruvian popular arts) (1949);[11]
- El "kero", vaso de libaciones cusqueño de madera pintada (1952);[12]
- El desván de la imaginería peruana (1956, 1988);[13]
- Del arte en el Perú y otros ensayos (About Peruvian art and other essays) (1975).[14]
Tribute
On 19 March 2014, Google celebrated José Sabogal's 125th Birthday with a doodle.[15][16]
Bibliography
- Shreffler, Michael J. and Jessica Welton. Garcilaso de la Vega and the "New Peruvian Man": José Sabogal’s frescoes at the Hotel Cuzco. Art History. (Jan/Feb 2010, Vol 33), 124–149.
External links
References
- ^ Holliday T. Day, Hollister Sturges, Edward Lucie-Smith, and Damián Bayón, Art of the fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987 (Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987), 128.
- ^ Sara Benson, Paul Hellander, and Rafael Wlodarski, Peru (Lonely Planet, 2007), 49.
- ^ Ed. Leslie Bethell, A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2008), 88.
- ^ Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M. López, Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures (CRC Press, 2000), 4.
- ^ a b Kristin G. Congdon and Kara Kelley Hallmark (2002). Artists from Latin American Cultures: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. pp. 238–240.
- ^ a b c d e f g Jane Turner, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art. Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 614.
- ^ Jane Turner, The dictionary of art, v. 24 (Grove's Dictionaries, 1996), 509.
- ^ Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature, Instituto de Cine y Radio-Televisión, I & L, Ideologies & literature v. 3, nos. 11-14 (Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature., 1980), 76.
- ^ Mates burilados: Arte vernacular peruano
- ^ Pancho Fierro, estampas del pintor peruano
- ^ El toro en las artes populares del Perú
- ^ El "kero", vaso de libaciones cusqueño de madera pintada
- ^ El desván de la imaginería peruana
- ^ Del arte en el Perú y otros ensayos
- ^ "José Sabogal's 125th Birthday". www.google.com. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- ^ Desk, OV Digital (2023-03-18). "19 March: Remembering José Sabogal on Birthday". Observer Voice. Retrieved 2023-03-18.