The master painter Gonzalo Endara Crow is one of the greatest exhibitors of 20th century painting. Critics refer to his style as Magical Realism. He fills his canvases with the colors, geography and people of the Andes. Reality is mixed with fantastic elements such as flying trains, fruits and giant bells.
Notable artist born in Bucay, province of Guayas, on May 17.1936, son of Mr. Arsenio Endara - who worked at that railway station - and Mrs. Zoila Crow. He completed his primary and secondary studies in the city of Riobamba, without discovering his vocation for the plastic arts. Later he carried out different activities until, in 1971 - when he had turned 35 years of age and had settled in Quito - he became interested in Within him he called it artistic and entered the School of Arts of the Central University; But his free spirit did not accept academic obligations and, repudiating the traditional teachings that he considered retrograde and obsolete, he soon retired without achieving any degree, to dedicate himself to searching for new forms and colors that would fulfill his pictorial concepts. Five years later his name was already pronounced in the main art galleries and his fame grew under the protection of the polychrome of his wonderful colors. Then, from his limitless imagination and fantasy, works of unparalleled color emerged that would revolutionize the concepts of Ecuadorian art. By 1980 he had already achieved definitive consecration, and his work was exhibited in the main galleries, not only in Ecuador, but in America and Europe. Master Endara Crow continued to carry out his wonderful pictorial work, which was interrupted by a very serious illness that shortly ended his life, in Quito, on April 14.1996. As in the texts of magical realism, Endara Crow's paintings try to expand the categories of reality in order to encompass myth. Magic and other extraordinary phenomena of nature, all excluded by European culture, find their place in Endara Crow's paintin
Cob - Gonzalo Endara Crow 1991
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