Armando Morales
Bio
Armando Morales was born in Granada, Nicaragua, in 1927. He studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Managua. In 1969, he moved to the United States in a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and studied at the Pratt Graphic Center. In his works of the 1960s, Morales incorporated informal abstraction with the use of collage. After 1968, he returned to a more representative style with figures placed in a semi-abstract metaphysical environment in which volume and background are integrated.
Statement
Armando Morales is a central figure in the Neo-figuration movement in Latin America. He was the recipient of the E. Wolf award at the V São Paulo Biennial for his abstract paintings. From there on, he devoted himself to exploring his memories. His canvases show the landscape of his Granada next to the Great Lake of Nicaragua, inhabited by naked bathers in the maturity of their age and the old dock that penetrates the rough waters. It is a landscape that he will repeat in his work with obsessive mastery.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
