Óscar Allain

Óscar Guillermo Allain Cottera (born 19 September 1922 in Lima) is a Peruvian painter.
==Biography==
Allain was born in 1922 in the capital of Lima, Peru. He is the son of the marriage of the military man Guillermo Allain Soto and the novice Juanita Cottera Palomino. His father, Guillermo Allain, proposed that he study the militarization of the Chorrillos Military School and his mother, Juanita Cottera, died at the age of twenty-two.
The independent painter studied at the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts (ENSABAP). He was a disciple of Alejandro González Trujillo, “Apu-Rimak”, at the centennial National School of Fine Arts as a member of the so-called "golden generation". He worked as a professor at the Víctor Morey Peña Higher School of Fine Arts in Iquitos and at the Hermilio Valdizan National University in Huánuco.
Allain is a paradigmatic, testimonial and expressive painter of the coast, mountains and jungle of Peru. His plastic art captures the colors, faces and characters such as the painting of the artists Pancho Fierro, Francisco Lazo, José Sabogal and Teodoro Nuñez Ureta that expresses the man of Peru with his peculiarities.
The independentist master has participated in the most prestigious museums in Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and London, observing the essential paintings. Throughout his career, Allain exhibited in the most important galleries in Peru and the world such as the Cultural Center of San Marcos with the exhibition of the private collection of Bill and Cristina Kallop.
He is a member of the Association of Plastic Artists of Peru (ASPAP).
He is a member of the Society of Authors and Composers of Peru (SAYCOPE).
==Awards and distinctions==
Among the awards and distinctions that Allain has received we can find the following:
* "World Award for Artistic Excellence" from the Hispanomundial Union of Writers.
* Grace Pension of the Peruvian State.
* Medal of the Municipality of La Victoria.
* Civic Medal of the City of Jesús María.
* Medal of the Municipality of San Isidro.
* Medal of the Municipality of Lima.
* Medal of the Peruvian Petroleum Engineering Service of the East (SEPIPSA).
* Medal of the National Association of Breeders and Owners of Peruvian Paso Horses (ANCPCPP).
* Medal of Culture of the National Institute of Culture of Lambayeque.
* Medal of the National Society of Fine Arts of Peru.
* Artistic Palmas in the Degree of Grand Master of the Ministry of Education.
* Retrospective of Óscar Allain from the Pancho Fierro Municipal Art Gallery.
* Participation in the edition of the pictorial exhibition "Art Night".
* Participation in the Fourth Havana Biennial, Cuba.
* Exhibition of the Museum of the Americas of Puerto Rico.
* Exhibition "The Color of my Land" of the 465th anniversary of the National University of San Marcos.
* Pictorial exhibition at the Convention of Peruvian Institutions of the United States and Canada in New York City.
* Collective exhibition "Between the figurative and the abstract" of the Ministry of Culture.
* Collective exhibition of the artists of the Association of Plastic Artists of Peru (ASPAP) of the Ricardo Palma Cultural Center.
* Collective exhibition "Marinera for the world" of the gallery "Raúl Joo Meléndez" of the College of Architects of La Libertad.
* Participation in the XVI General Assembly and Congress of the International Association of Plastic Arts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (AIAP-UNESCO).
* Representation of Peru in the Family Integration event of the Organization of American States (OAS).
* Issuance of stamps of the Postal Services of Peru (Serpost) with motifs of Allain's pictorial work.
* In the celebration of his first centenary of his birth, he was considered the dean of painters and patriarch of the Creoles of Peru.
* Waltz song in his tribute entitled "Painter of sensations" composed and recorded by the criollos Willy Terry and Carlos Castillo.
Category:1922 births
Category:People from Lima
Category:Peruvian people
Category:Peruvian painters