2. Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Germán María
Hughes Galeano was born
in Montevideo, Uruguay in
1940. Galeano died on
Monday, April 13, 2015 of
lung cancer at the age 74 .
3. He is considered as one
the most notable authors
of Latin America.
Among his many works
are “Memory of Fire
Trilogy”, “The Following
Days”, and the “Open
Veins of the America”.
4. He started his carrer as
a journalist in the early
1960 as editor of Marcha,
and influential weekly
journal which had such
contributors as Mario
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Benedetti, Manuel
Maldonado Denis and
Roberto Fernández
Retamar.
5. In 1999, he received
Lannan Cultural Freerom
Prize.
In 2006, he was awarded
the International Human
Rights Awards by Global
Exchange.
In 2010, he was the
recipient of the Stig
Dagerman Prize, a Swedish
award
6. Juan Manuel Blanes
He was born in Montevideo,
Uruguay on June, 8 in 1830. He
was a Uruguayan painter of
Realist school known for his
paintings of historical events of
South America and his
depictions of gaucho life. Blanes
died on April 15, 1901 in Pisa,
Italia.
7. Blanes took an interest in
drawing at this point, and
shortly afterwards, was hired as
an illustrator for a Montevideo
newsdaily, El Defensor de la
Independencia Americana.
8. The city of Montevideo
established the Municipal
Museum of Fine Arts, and
named it in his honor, in 1930;
many of his best-known works
are also displayed in the
National Museum of Visual
Arts.
9. Blanes undertook a portrait
of the “Thirty-three Easterners”
members of a revolutionary
vanguard whose insurrection
against Brazilian authorities
resulted in Uruguayan
Independence, in 1828.
10. Pedro Figari
He was born in Montevideo,
Uruguay on June 29, 1861. Figari
was a Uruguayan modernist
painter, lawyer, writer, politicial,
and educator. He died on July
24, 1938 in Montevideo.
11. He attempts to capture the
essence of his home by painting
local customs that he had
observed in his childhood.
Figari painted primarily
from memory, a technique that
gives his work a far more
personal feeling.
12. Pedro Figari clearly has a
style of his own. Although he
was heavily influenced by Italian
art earlier in his career, he
managed to reconnect with a
more naïve style when he began
to paint seriously
13. Although he showed an
interest in art during his
childhood, most of his life was
devoted to the pratice of law. In
1886 he received a degree in
law.
