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, Viņa 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". He has been awarded with several prizes. Among them: "Silver Medal" in one of the National Art Contest
and, "Special Prize "from the Municipality of Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
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