Teófilo Castillo
Peruvian artist
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Latin American art
- In Latin American art: Modernismo (1890–1920)
…Peruvian artists Carlos Baca-Flor and Teófilo Castillo. In his paintings, such as the small oil-on-board Couple (1900), Baca-Flor built up a heavy impasto of contrasting bright and dark pigments. Castillo’s subject matter depicted the colonial legacy. In Burial of St. Rose of Lima (1918), for example, his passionate, disconnected brushstrokes…
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