Angel BOTELLO
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Spain 1913 - 1986
Contemporary Art
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Angel Botello was born June 20, 1913, in Villa de Gangas de Morrazo in Galicia, in the northwestern region of Spain.
Angel was one of six children of Angel Botello SuOrez, a businessman in the fish canning industry. From1930 to 1934 he studied in icole des Beaux Arts in France, where he excelled in drawing, painting and modeling. In 1935, Angel returned to Spain where he enrolled at Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. His studies in Madrid were abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. After the war, Angel and his family traveled to the Caribbean. After moving between Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico for various years, Angel, now married, established himself in Puerto Rico in1953. By this time, he already had gained international recognition in the world of the plastic arts. The few paintings that remain of the young Botello's work in France and Spain reflect an immediate break from his strictly academic training to the impressionist and post-impressionist concepts and techniques that shaped his development.
He died in Puerto Rico in 1986, leaving behind an impressive legacy of oil paintings, linocuts, lithographs, silk-screens and bronze sculptures. ...
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