Marta Traba Taín was an art critic

Art critic

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 and writer

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 well known for her important contributions in the study of Latin American art

Latin American art

Latin American art is the combined artistic expressions of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Latin American living in other regions....

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Her parents were Greek immigrants, Francisco Traba and Marta Taín. Se studied Phylosophy at the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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. During the years in the university, she worked in a magazine called "Ver y Estimar", directed by the art critic Jorge Romero Brest

Jorge Romero Brest

Jorge Aníbal Romero Brest was an influential art critic in Argentina who helped popularize avant-garde art in his country.-Life and work:...

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From 1949 to 1950 she studied Art History

Art history

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 in La Sorbona of Paris

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 and then in the National University of Colombia

National University of Colombia

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, in Bogotá

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, where she obtained the Art History course. She founded the Modern Art Museum of Bogotá

Bogotá

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. Meanwhile, she taught at the Universidad de los Andes. In 1968, during the government of Carlos Lleras Restrepo

Carlos Lleras Restrepo

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, los militares ocuparon la National University of Colombia

National University of Colombia

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 and expelled her from the country. As an exile

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, she lived in Montevideo

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, Caracas

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, San Juan de Puerto Rico, Washington, Barcelona

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 and Paris

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, with her second husband, the Uruguayan

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 literary critic Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama was a Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic, known for his work on modernismo and for his theorization of the concept of "transculturation."-Biography:...

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In 1958 she published El museo vacío, an essay about aethetics where she wrote a critic about Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce

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 and Wilhelm Worringer

Wilhelm Worringer

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. Also she published some essays about the history of Latin American art

Latin American art

Latin American art is the combined artistic expressions of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, as well as Latin American living in other regions....

: In 1961 La pintura nueva en Latinoamérica (1961), Dos décadas vulnerables en las artes plásticas latinoamericanas (1950-1970) (1973), Arte de América Latina 1900-1980. She analized the work of some Latin American artists like Alejandro Obregón

Alejandro Obregón

Daniel Alberto Alejandro María de la Santísima Trinidad Obregón Roses commonly known as Alejandro Obregón was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.-Career:...

, Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity...

, Leopoldo Richter, Guillermo Videmann, Eduardo Ramírez, Edgar Negret

Edgar Negret

Edgar Negret is a modern Latin American abstract sculptor. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia...

, Feliza Bursztyn

Feliza Bursztyn

Feliza Bursztyn was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1933. She studied painting in the Art Students League of New York City and sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Her exploration with materials started thanks to the work of the French César Baldaccini and after 1961 she started...

 y Antonio Roda.