Gladys Afamado

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Gladys Afamado
Born (1925-05-24) 24 May 1925 (age 98)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)Artist, writer, poet
Relatives Ethel Afamado (sister)
Awards

Gladys Afamado (born 24 May 1925) [1] is a Uruguayan visual artist, engraver, and poet. A member of the Montevideo Engraving Club since 1954, she has contributed to many of its monthly editions and almanacs. She later ventured into different plastic artforms, and in recent years has been recognized for her work in digital art. [2]

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Biography

Gladys Afamado was the second of five children of Isaac Isidoro Afamado, a Jewish immigrant based in Montevideo, and his wife Julia, the daughter of Italian immigrants, born in Dolores, Soriano. She attended public school, and in her home she received an open and free education, in which art, letters, and music were encouraged. His sister Ethel Afamado has had a distinguished career in music and poetry.

She received artistic training with Adolfo Pastor and Domingo Bazzurro at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and at the National School of Fine Arts between 1940 and 1950. Later she took ceramics courses with Duncan Quintela and screen printing with Rimer Cardillo. She studied semiotics with Jorge Medina Vidal and literature with Jorge Arbeleche. [3]

From 1945 to 1950 she studied violin with Beatriz Tusset, and in 1951 and 1952 she participated in the "Anfión" chamber orchestra directed by Tusset.

The 1974 almanac of the Montevideo Engraving Club, titled Canción con todos, with Gladys Afamado's cover, was censored and removed from circulation by the de facto government. [4] [5]

In 1984, she traveled to Spain on a competitive scholarship, where she attended a paper craft course in Capellades, with Laurence Barker and Frederic Amat, material that she would later use in her works.

In 1986, she took a postgraduate course in metal engraving at the National Museum of Visual Arts, taught by David Finkbeiner of the State University of New York at Purchase.

Afamado's work is known for female figures with large eyes that look directly at the viewer, characteristic of the stage of the editions of the Montevideo Engraving Club.

In 2016, the National Museum of Visual Arts organized an anthological exhibition of her work, curated by María Eugenia Grau. [1]

Awards

Poetic work

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gladys Afamado: una cita sin fin" [Gladys Afamado: An Endless Appointment] (in Spanish). National Museum of Visual Arts . Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Bandrymer, Sonia. "Arte Activo" (in Spanish). Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Di Maggio, Nelson (2013). Artes Visuales en Uruguay: diccionario crítico[Visual Arts in Uruguay: Critical Dictionary] (in Spanish). Gussi Libros. ISBN   9789974991569.
  4. ↑ Frank, Patrick. "Grabados Uruguayos / Uruguayan Prints". Latin American Graphic Arts. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. ↑ González, Leonilda (2006). Premio Figari 2006 (in Spanish). Central Bank of Uruguay. p. 42. Retrieved 24 November 2017– via Google Books.
  6. 1 2 "Curriculum Gladys Afamado" (in Spanish). Ministry of Transportation and Public Works of Uruguay. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Gladys Afamado será la homenajeada en el 60.º Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales". Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Afamado, Gladys". WorldCat . Retrieved 24 November 2017.
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