The National Capitol of Colombia ( Spanish : Capitolio Nacional de Colombia ), often simply referred to as Capitolio Nacional (National Capitol) , is a building on Bolivar Square in central Bogotá , the construction of which began in 1848 and was finished in 1926. It houses both houses of the Congress of Colombia . It was designed by Thomas Reed .
16-733: In 1938, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo painted two murals for the Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá . In 1947 for the Inter American Conference, Santiago Martínez Delgado painted a majestic mural under commission of the then director of the OEA, Alberto Lleras Camargo and Conference organizer Laureano Gómez , two men who later became Presidents of Colombia. This mural of the Elliptic chamber National Congress Building, made in
32-532: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ignacio G%C3%B3mez Jaramillo Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo ( Medellín , 30 December 1910 - Coveñas , 12 July 1970) was a Colombian painter, drawer, and muralist . Gomez Jaramillo was one of Colombia's most important artists of the 20th century. He was part of the Colombian Muralist Movement along with Santiago Martinez Delgado and Pedro Nel Gómez . He won first place in painting in
48-730: A catalog and a book based on the collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States . In 1982, when the Ronald Reagan administration denied Traba and Rama permanent residency the couple moved to Paris. They were both killed along with Mexican novelist and playwright Jorge Ibargüengoitia and Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist Manuel Scorza on 27 November 1983 when Avianca Flight 011 crashed near Madrid-Barajas airport. They were on
64-522: A period in Italy and Argentina, the couple settled in Bogotá , Colombia. There, Traba taught art history at various universities, participated in television programs about art, and wrote art criticism for popular publications such as El Tiempo, Estampa, and Semana. She became a celebrity and one of the leading authorities in contemporary art in Colombia. In the early 1960s she co-founded and directed
80-459: A series of polemics about Colombian art with Marta Traba , for which he is known as "antitrabista". Marta Traba Marta Traba Taín (Buenos Aires, 25 January 1930 – Madrid, 27 November 1983) was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature. Traba's parents were Catalan immigrants, Francisco Traba and Marta Taín. She studied Letters at
96-638: The Academie de la Grande Chaumiere . In 1934, he returned to Colombia and made two solo exhibitions. In 1936, he traveled with a government scholarship to study mural painting in Mexico. On his return, in 1938, he painted two murals for the Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá . The three were found to be unsuitable for the Capitol and were covered with lime, to be discovered and restored by students of
112-725: The University of Buenos Aires . Upon graduation she worked at the arts review journal Ver y Estimar ('Look and Consider'), under the editorship of the art critic Jorge Romero Brest . From 1948 to 1950, Traba lived in Paris and took art history classes at La Sorbonne and the School of the Louvre. In Paris, she met her first husband, the Colombian journalist Alberto Zalamea, with whom she had two children, Gustavo and Fernando. In 1954, after
128-516: The fresco style, represents Bolivar and Santander exiting the Cucuta congress during the creation of the Great Colombia. The mural is considered the most important fresco in the country and the artist's main masterpiece. 4°35′51″N 74°04′35″W / 4.59750°N 74.07639°W / 4.59750; -74.07639 This article about a Colombian building or structure is
144-849: The 1940 and 1961 years of the Salon of Colombian Artists . Jaramillo was known as an "atitrabista" for his defense of post-modern Colombian Art. He was a professor at the Fine Arts School of Bogotá. Some of his paintings are part of the permanent collection at the Colombian National Museum . His mural, The Liberation of Slaves , is also featured in the Room of Artistic Heritage in the Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace of Culture . His parents were Sigfredo Gómez Jiménez and Encarnación Jaramillo. Ignacio studied in
160-702: The Antonio J. Duque Art School in Medellín . He also studied engineering in college for several semesters. In 1928 he worked as a draftsman in a workshop for Pepe Mexía. In 1929, he traveled to Spain to study architecture, but quickly began studying art again at the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona. In 1930, he painted a series of landscapes of Toledo and in 1931 he had his first solo exhibition in Madrid . In 1932 he moved to Paris, where he studied at
176-691: The Colombo-Soviet Cultural Institute with the aim of improving friendship and cultural relations with the Soviet Socialist Republic. Gómez Jaramillo was one of three great artists who revolutionized Murals in Colombia. He was professor and director of the School of Fine Arts in Bogotá and President of the Association of Writers and Artists of Colombia. As a writer for El Tiempo in Bogotá, he published
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#1732772417465192-645: The Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, which was later moved to the campus of the National University of Colombia . In 1967, during the government of President Carlos Lleras Restrepo , the military seized the campus of the National University of Colombia . After Traba publicly criticized these actions the government ordered her deportation, which was later rescinded on condition that Traba resign from all her official posts and refrained from political commentary. Traba left Colombia in 1969. With her second husband,
208-487: The National University in 1959. In 1940 and 1942, Gomez Jaramillo received first place prizes in painting in the first and third National Exhibition Artists of Colombia. When León de Greiff was Director of Cultural Promotion and Fine Arts, he co-founded in 1949 with a large group of intellectuals and artists that included Alfonso López Michelsen, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo and Baldomero Sanín Cano among others,
224-587: The Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama she lived and worked in Montevideo , Caracas, and San Juan de Puerto Rico , often teaching at the local universities and publishing her often provocative art criticism. In 1979, Traba and Rama settled in the Washington, D.C., area, as Rama was a tenured professor at the University of Maryland . Traba continued to lecture at various universities while preparing
240-549: The plane on their way to Colombia. Traba published more than 20 books and around 1,000 articles about art. In 1958, she published El museo vacío, a book concerning modern art in which she adopted aesthetic notions by Benedetto Croce and Wilhelm Worringer . Traba also published numerous provocative essays about Latin American art: La pintura nueva en Latinoamérica (1961), Dos décadas vulnerables en las artes plásticas latinoamericanas (1950–1970) (1973), and Arte de América Latina 1900–1980. She also supported with her writings
256-418: The work of numerous Colombian artists such as Alejandro Obregón , Fernando Botero , Leopoldo Richter (1896-1984), Guillermo Wiedemann [ es ] , Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar , Samuel Montealegre [ it ] , Edgar Negret , Feliza Bursztyn and Juan Antonio Roda [ es ] . In 1966, Traba began to publish novels. Her first novel Las ceremonias del verano (1966) received
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