Dr. Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912–1988) was a Peru
vian painter and a writer, noted for an original and distinctive style in Latin American art. His work often celebrated the life of the simple people of the Andes and the countryside, as distinct from a Spanish colonial legacy which had tended to ignore such topics.
A child of a poor family in the provincial city of Arequipa
, he began to learn to draw and paint on his own.
Nor bigots who but one way see,Through blinkers of authority.
To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,Some recommend the bowling green;Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Avarice, sphincter of the heart.
Thus I steer my bark, and sailOn even keel, with gentle gale.
Though pleased to see the dolphins play,I mind my compass and my way.