Sergio Trujillo Magnenat
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Sergio Trujillo Magnenat in his Study in 1990
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| Born |
February 21, 1911 Manzanares, Colombia |
| Died | December 8, 1999 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Known for | Painter, sculptor |
| Movement | Art Deco |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Dávila Ortiz |
Sergio Trujillo Magnenat (February 21, 1911 – December 8, 1999) was a Colombian painter, illustrator and sculptor of Colombian father and Swiss mother.
At 15 years of age and took drawing classes at the night shift at the School of Fine Arts, where admitted as a regular student two years later. His teachers Roberto Pizano, Domingo Moreno Otero, Pedro A. Quijano, Francisco Cano and Coriolanus Leudo.
On his own initiative he began work on The Ballad of Viceroy Solis, his first picture book manuscript done in watercolors.
At that time, says Trujillo Magnenat, there were few museums in Colombia; and there were no galleries or exhibitions neither art critics. Support for the artists from the government and private enterprise did not exist.
In 1932 he begins to make illustrations for the literary section of the newspaper El Tiempo and the magazine Mundo al día. He works in ceramics and photography with Carolina Cárdenas, who died a few years later and in whose honor he creates the oil painting Death and the Maiden, one of his most famous paintings and considered, altogether with Women on clubs as one of the most important works of Colombian twentieth century.
While researching Toi et moi, his second book manuscript with illustrations in watercolors and texts in ink and gold, with marked influence from art deco movement, he was appointed director of the Department of Decorative Arts School Fine Arts Bogotá. Soon after, takes over as director of publications of the Ministry of National Education.
The cover of Cantique de cantiques du roi Suleiman (Song of Songs of Solomon) was made in tin embossed with inlaid ceramic, and the pages made them, just like those in Toi et moi by his own hand by calligraphic transcription of the texts, "decorating and illuminating the capital letters with details using the aesthetics characteristics of medieval manuscripts but with his own stroke of a modern painter. In addition, each manuscript contains several of his drawings that recreate scenes and feelings evoked in songs or poems."
In the First Annual Hall Colombian Artists wins the silver medal with the works Pastora, Anunciación y Composición (Death and the Maiden). At the Second Annual Exhibition won the gold medal with the oil Portrait of Mrs. Sara Dávila Ortiz.
Trujillo Magnenat, a multifaceted artist, disciplined, cultured and refined, had great humanistic education, belongs to the generation of the pioneers of modern art in Colombia, who distinguished themselves away from the rigor of the classic rules and have achieved an art of their own. He was attentive to the international innovative spirit that the Bauhaus drove with its motto: "art and technique: a new unity". As the art curator Carmen María Jaramillo understands, the mass dissemination of the work of art could be one of the fundamental objectives of Trujillo and a common denominator, both Colombian art of the period, with its growing interest in the mural, and the tendency to recover and reassess the applied arts which allow to create art objects within reach of the common man and not just the specialized collector. This became evident since he started illustrating the main newspapers and magazines in Colombia, and illustrated all kinds of books, from children's stories and booklets to history textbooks and poetry.
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