Octavio Ocampo was born in 1943 in Celaya, Mexico. He studied art in Mexico City and San Francisco, graduating in 1974. He focuses solely on painting and sculpture, working in a metamorphic style that uses techniques like overlapping and juxtaposition of realistic details to create images. Ocampo lives and works in Tepoztlan, Mexico, intertwining intricate details in his paintings to form larger figures that can only be fully appreciated from a distance as the viewer settles all the individual details.

2. Octavio Ocampo
Octavio Ocampo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico February 28
1943. He studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City and San
Francisco Art Institute, he graduated in 1974. After having given early signs
of his multifaceted artistic genius, since 1976 was devoted only to painting
and sculpture. Ocampo now works and lives in Tepoztlan, north of Mexico
City, is considered one of the most beautiful places on earth. He works
mainly with the metamorphic style - using a technique of overlapping and
juxtaposition of realistic and figurative details within the images that he
creates.
Octavio Ocampo is famous for his many paintings in which intertwines the
detailed and intricate images that help to create a figure larger. Only away from
the painting you can fully appreciate, involving the person who goes to settle
all the individual details.

3. Octavio Ocampo used the ambiguity of vision to produce paintings or
sculptures that arouse contradictory feelings.
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