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Article: Fernando de Szyszlo at Associated American Artists.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Fernando de Szyszlo was born in Lima in 1925 to a Polish naturalist and his Peruvian wife. In 1943, he entered architecture school, but abandoned plans to follow that profession and enrolled in the School of Plastic Arts at the Catholic University in his home city, an institution devoted to Peruvian culture. Szyszlo experimented with Surrealism and Cubism while maintaining a strong interest in the arts of his homeland, especially those of the ancient Chancay culture, its textiles and other decorative artifacts, as well as its deep-rooted rituals and mythologies.
Still, Szyszlo found himself--not by accident--in postwar Paris before he was 30. There he further ...
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