Alfredo Sinclair
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Alfredo Sinclair is a Panama
nian artist
. He was born in Panama City
. He was the first to explore abstraction. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi
at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina
, between 1947 and 1951.
In spite of the fact that the Panamanian public did not understand much of his art, in 1955 he was awarded a prize for a piece that included bits of glass. With the passage of time Sinclair's painting followed the lines of a lyrical abstraction that went from collage
s to soft and luminous compositions. One of his most famous works is Mancha, which is also included in the exhibition.
His daughter Olga Sinclair
is also an artist.
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
nian artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He was born in Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
. He was the first to explore abstraction. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi
Humberto Ivaldi
Humberto Ivaldi was director of the National School of Painting in Panama City.He worked with many Panamanian painters, including: Cedeño, Oduber, Silvera, Jeanine, Benitez and Alfredo Sinclair....
at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, between 1947 and 1951.
In spite of the fact that the Panamanian public did not understand much of his art, in 1955 he was awarded a prize for a piece that included bits of glass. With the passage of time Sinclair's painting followed the lines of a lyrical abstraction that went from collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
s to soft and luminous compositions. One of his most famous works is Mancha, which is also included in the exhibition.
His daughter Olga Sinclair
Olga Sinclair
Olga Sinclair is an artist and figurative painter.She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters at the age of just 14....
is also an artist.