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Mario Urteaga Alvarado
Urteaga Alvarado, Mario was a Peruvian painter. He originally worked as a journalist, administrator, teacher and farmer however, he switched to oil painting at around the age of 30.
Urteaga appears to have been self-taught, using poor quality materials for his art such as old sugar sacks and cheap pigments, as well as making his own brushes.
His scenes of the lives of northern Andean Indians are colourful. Their naive though detailed execution has been described as primitive and unacademic, and has been likened to that of Henri Rousseau.
His spontaneity and topicality are reminiscent of the caricatures of Pancho ...
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