Chilean painter
Born in Angol, Chile, en 1904.
When he was young, he stans out as a good sportman,
especially as a boxer.
Self taught painter.
He arrives to the painting when he was on his fifties,
but soon, he becomes a very important name among
the chilean plastic art.
He exhibited his artwork in more than
one hundred Exhibitions.
The most important Art Galleries of the more importants cities of Chile oponed its doors for him: Santiago, Viña del Mar, Concepcion, Punta Arenas, Valparaiso and many more.
Outside of Chile he has presented
his beautiful panels
in Asunción, Paraguay, and in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His main and almost only subject is the Nature, especially
everything that a garden offers to us,
its flowers and its green colors.
The great master painter Sergio Montecinos wrote about him:
"Oscar Anguita Costa is one of the painters
whom receives that first and unique message from the paternal ground. He arrives until its gardens and fields to paint them. He looks for the direct touch to imprison its enchantements.
He sharpens the colors to emphasize the chromatic accent of the flowers. He draws up the subtle drawing of the stem of the roses and violets.
In love with the flowers, he discovers the delicate harmony of what it is extremely delicate already."
Dr. Antonio Fernandez V., Director of the Pinacoteca of the Universidad de Concepcion, adds: " Painting of Anguita Costa is unique. It welcomes that ephemeral and spontaneus freshness that a familiar garden offers to us.
Warm, deep, with old flavor. His paintings give to our eyes colors in amazing rates, own of the magic and unexpected encounter with
the vegetal world he loves".
PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS.
1970 - Second Prize Free Contest, Copiapó, Chile. - 1975 - Second Prize Municipal Theater of Santiago. - 1975 - First Prize American Plastic Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago. - 1976 - First Prize Floral Art, Hotel La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. - 1976 - Spring Parlor Honor Mention, National Society of Fine Arts, Santiago. - 1977 - First place, Municipal Room of Punta Arenas, Chile. - 1986 - Medal Silver National Parlor of the Society of Fine Arts, Santiago. - 1986 - First Prize, Cultural Institute of Providence, Santiago. - 1991 - Medal of Gold, National Society of Fine Arts, Santiago. - 1992 - He is Declared Illustrious Son of Angol, city Hall of Angol, Chile. - 1994 - Art Gallery Marbella Resort, Chile.
His works are shown at the Museum of
Contemporary Art of Santiago, Chile,
the Art gallery of the University of Concepción
and in the main arts centers of Chile.
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