Ana Mercedes Hoyos a “pioneer of fashion art” whose paintings and sculptures venerated Colombian culture.
It was celebrated with a Google Doodle on December 17, 2022. “Today’s Doodle celebrates Ana Mercedes Hoyos, a prominent Colombian artist. She is an award-winning painter and sculptor who has won more than seventeen national and foreign awards,” Google wrote.
“Hoyos is a pioneer of fashion art who pointed to the complexities of Colombian culture. On this day in 1968, Hoyos won first place in the exhibition “Environmental Spaces” at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Hoyos is known for his “bright color scheme” in his “abstract artwork,” as well as his “figurative paintings of still lifes, macaws, and fruit merchants on the beaches of Colombia’s Atlantic coast. “
“Everything you have when you’re an artist is a duty to yourself and a commitment to society,” he once said, according to The Union-Tribune.
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According to Google, Hoyos “was born in a circle of architects’ relatives in Bogotá, Colombia, on September 29, 1942. “
Her circle of family encouraged her to “study art history from an early age,” Google writes.
“He attended Marymount College before studying visual arts at Universidad de los Andes. She first explored more minimalist and summary styles, which led to her first series Windows. Many consider this collection as the turning point of his career, since he won the Caracas prize at the National Salon of Artists of Colombia.
According to Colección Arte, Hoyos is the “daughter of the engineer, committed to architecture, Manuel José Hoyos and Esther Mejí”.
He then studied with teachers “the Spanish painter Juan Antonio Roda and the Argentine critic Ma Traba,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
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RoGallery described Ana Mercedes Hoyos as “one of the greatest and outstanding figures of Colombian art today. “
Hoyos’ artworks have been noticed in countries around the world.
His paintings “have been noticed worldwide since 1968 with solo exhibitions in Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the United States,” the site says.
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According to Mutual Art. com, some of Hoyos’ paintings have raised as much as a quarter of a million at auction houses.
“Many key galleries and museums, such as Galería Nueveochenta, have exhibited the paintings of Ana Mercedes Hoyos in the past,” he said.
“Ana Mercedes Hoyos’ paintings have been presented several times at auction, with amounts ranging from $175 to $245,000, depending on the length and medium of the paintings. “
The high-end award went to his “Mural in Three Parts” paintings, which Sotheby’s New York sold in 2014 to Mutual Art.
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Hoyos died in 2014 at the age of 72. Her obituary in the New York Times states that she was a “longtime resident of New York,” but that she died in Bogota, Colombia.
The newspaper’s obituary describes Hoyos as “one of the greatest representatives of Colombian art for more than five decades. “
The article says she “outlived her husband, architect Jacques Mosseri, her daughter, artist Ana Mosseri, and her two grandchildren. “
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According to Ask Art. com, Hoyos’ paintings “adopted a pop aesthetic, which incorporated scenes from the Andean landscape of his local Colombia. “
He explains that his paintings “revealed a reflective attitude about the importance of African heritage in Colombia and Latin America. “
According to Ask Art: “In many of his works, the artist has created atmospheres that allow us to understand the transparent musical rhythm of the African roots that flood the spaces. Gigantic white ribbons, white or multicolored dresses, give us the impression of being a component of the component participating in the parade.
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