Mamani Mamani
The artist I looked at is known as Mamani Mamani. His real name is Roberto Mamani and he is a Bolivian painter. His works are greatly influenced by his upbringings and events that happened in his life. He says he is "de nacimiento Quechua y sangre Aymara."this comes from a time when he was 5 and his family had to move back to Tiahuanaco, where he lived his grandparents. But really, it was his grandmother who instilled in him the value of culture and heritage and made sure that he never forgot where he cam from and who he was.
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| Copa De Tobas |
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| Cronicas De La Tierra Sin Mal |
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| Mother Illimani With Inti, Awicha and Children |
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| El Gato De La Suerte |
Roberto Mamani Mamani's works of art all contain elements of Andean culture. The colors he uses have specific meanings and represent parts of his culture and the folklore and beliefs of his people. In his paintings, yellow suns are male, pointed mountains are male, rounded mountains are female, blue moons are female, horses (brought to the Americas by the Spaniards) represent the colonization and enslavement of his people, and so on. Each piece tells a story and each color and shape is specifically chosen to represent part of that story. Mamani also paints in series (women, archangels, grandmothers, llamas, suns, mountains) and other sets.
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