Omar Rayo
Omar Rayo | |
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Died | June 7, 2010 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Colombian |
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Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned
One of his most celebrated exhibitions was carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar Rayo."
Museum
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The Museo Rayo de Dibujo y Grabado Latinoamericano was founded on January 20, 1981, by Rayo in his hometown of Roldanillo with funds the artist himself provided. The museum was also funded with help from the Colombian government and others so that this site would remain a permanent exhibit of his works of art during the late 1980s. The museum was designed by
Personal life
Rayo met New York-born poet Águeda Pizarro, almost fourteen years his junior, in New York in 1963. At the time Rayo was dating a friend of hers from university, but Rayo soon began going out with Pizarro instead, and she moved in with him in 1968.[1] The couple divided their time between New York and Roldanillo, spending six months in each place. Their daughter Sara was born in 1977, at which point they made the decision to marry.[2] Sara Rayo is now a successful artist in her own right.[3]
Death
Rayo suffered his first heart attack in 1998, and a more serious one in January 2006, which resulted in him spending 30 hours in a coma before recovering.[4]
On the morning on June 7, 2010, Rayo collapsed during breakfast at his home in Roldanillo, according to the testimony of one of his assistants, Alejandro Mendoza. At the time his wife Águeda and daughter Sara were at Sara's home in Cali. Rayo was taken to the local hospital where the cause of the collapse was identified as another heart attack. At the hospital he was resuscitated and transferred by ambulance to a hospital in the departmental capital Cali, but during the journey near the city of Palmira, Rayo's condition deteriorated and his vital signs were lost; he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Valle de Lili hospital in Cali.[5]
Tribute
On January 20, 2012, Google celebrated Rayo's 84th birthday with a Google Doodle.[6]
References
- ^ "Águeda Pizarro, el alma del pintor Ómar Rayo". El País (in Spanish). February 24, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ ""Mi corazón se radicó en Colombia a través de los encuentros de poesía", Águeda Pizarro". El País (in Spanish). February 24, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ López González, Alejandra (March 20, 2015). "Sara Rayo, la encargada de seguir el legado del Museo Rayo". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Ómar Rayo sufrió infarto". El Tiempo (in Spanish). January 30, 2006. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Se fue el maestro de Roldanillo". El Tiempo (in Spanish). June 8, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Omar Rayo's 84th Birthday". Google. 20 January 2012.
External links
- (in Spanish) Museo Rayo
- (in Spanish) Latin Art Museum; Omar Rayo