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Jorge Velarde
Jorge Velarde is a Latin American painter from Ecuador. Velarde has been drawing and painting since he was a child. At the age of 15 Velarde knew that he was meant to be a painter.
Velarde is a co-founder of Artefactoria, a group of artists that began working together in 1982 after graduating from the School of Beautiful Arts in Guayaquil. Artefactoria primarily consists of Velarde, Marcos Restrepo, Pedro Davila, Xavier Patino, Marco Alvarado, Flavio Alava, Paco Cuesta, as well as, Cuban artists Saidel Brito and Lupe Alvarez. The artists of Artefactoria are inspired by Surrealism, focusing on a divorce ...
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