Obregón 100 años
Subtitle: la fuerza de la vida
By: [prólogo : Adolfo Meisel Roca]
Contributors: Meisel Roca, Adolfo, 1954- writer of foreword
Edition: Primera reimpresión.
Publisher: Editorial Uninorte
Published: 2022
Place of publication: [Barranquilla, Colombia]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789587893120; 9789587893113
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Painters; Biography; Colombian Art; History; Intellectual life
Work titles: Works
Description: Life and work of artist Alejandro Obregon (Barcelona, Spain 1920-Colombia 1992), who was primarily a painter characteristic for the use of symbols and where color (particularly red) is an essential part of his unique style. He is considered an important reference of the abstract Surrealist movement in Latin America. The painter and sculptor Alejandro Obregón He belonged to a brilliant generation of Colombian artists, writers, architects and composers, being one of the most outstanding among so many talented creators. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, on June 4, 2020, the Museum of Modern Art of Barranquilla decided to sponsor the study of his life and work; for which it required the collaboration of a group of distinguished historians, critics and academics, who were entrusted with the task of studying the contributions of this master to the culture of the city, the country and Latin America.ʺ (HKB Translation) --Page 12.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261).

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Prólogo / Adolfo Meisel Roca; title: Presentación / María Eugenia Castro; title: Introducción / Álvaro Medina; title: ÉPOCA & CONTEXTOS; title: Alejandro Obregón y la constelación intelectual en la restauración conservadora / Sylvia Juliana Suárez Segura y William Alfonso López Rosas; title: Obregón, Mutis y Gabo: Amistad e identidad / Ramón Cote Baraibar; title: Obregón y Traba frente a las polémicas de la ii bienal americana de arte / María Cristina Rossi; title: TÉCNICAS & LENGUAJES; title: La obra de Obregón en el espacio público de Barranquilla / Néstor Martínez Celis; title: Del óleo al acrílico: la pintura de Alejandro Obregón en los años setenta / Eduardo Serrano; title: Obregón, la trampa del ángel / Samuel Vásquez; title: POÉTICAS & TEMAS; title: 1962: El año de las dos violencias. Obregón y las repercusiones de un doble hito en Colombia / Christian Padilla; title: La lectura formalista de la obra de Alejandro Obregón y la domesticación de su contenido crítico / Isabel Cristina Ramírez Botero; title: Alejandro Obregón y el tema de la muerte / Álvaro Medina; title: GALERÍA.