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Olga de Amaral (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1932) is a Colombian textile artist. She first studied architecture at the Collegio Mayor de Cundinamarca. She then studied fiber art at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan (1954–55).〔l〕 ==Information== Her works, which are internationally known, often take the form of large tapestries covered with gold or silver leaf. Her specialized artisanal technique, incorporating fiber, paint, gesso, and precious metals seamlessly integrate art, craft, and design. She is one of the textile artists who, in the 1960s, first turned textile arts from a primarily two-dimensional representational art form into a three-dimensional, abstract art form. Amaral was important in the development of post-war Latin American abstraction. Her work takes the elements of painting off the stretcher and into space. Architecture, mathematics, landscape, and socio-cultural dichotomies in Colombia are woven together through the use of fiber. Amaral is most recognized for her use of gold. In his prologue essay for Olga de Amaral: El Manto de la Memoria (2007), Edward-Lucie-Smith says “A large part of Olga's production has been concerned with gold, but there are in fact no equivalents for what she makes in Pre-Columbian archaeology. Nevertheless one feels that such objects ought in logic to exist—that she has supplied a lack.” Amaral founded and directed the textiles department at the Universidad de los Andes (University of the Andes) in Bogotá. In 1973 she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2005 she was selected as an Artist Visionary by the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2008, she was honorary co-chair for the benefit of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Her art is collected by major museums, corporations and private collectors. Amaral has exhibited in many institutions worldwide including: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana and the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan. Her work is represented in the collections of over forty museums including the De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, Museum Bellerive, Zürich, Switzerland, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and The Renwick Gallery of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olga de Amaral」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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