Édgar Negret

Edgar Negret is a modern Latin American abstract sculptor born in Popayán, Colombia in 1920. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi; by the early 1950s, he began working in metal in constuctivist tradition. In 1963 he wins the Salón de Artistas Colombianos and therefore becoming one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the XX century. In 1968, he was awarded the David E. Bright international prize for sculpture at the Thirty-fourth Venice Biennial.See fellow Colombian Constructivist sculptor Ramirez Villamizar.

elected Works

* [http://www.iadb.org/EXR/cultural/catalogues/Colombia/ennegret.htm]

References

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* [http://www.colombia.com/biografias/autonoticias/DetalleNoticia475.asp Colombia.com - EDGAR NEGRET (Artista Plástico)]