Maria luisa pacheco biography for kids
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Exposed to drawing at an early age through visiting her father’s architectural studio, she enrolled at the Academia de Bellas Artes Hernando Siles in 1936, studying under Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (1899-1950) and Jorge de la Reza (1901-1958).
She also took correspondence courses in art.
Maria luisa pacheco biography for kids
Joining the newspaper La Razón [The reason] in 1946 as a portraitist and illustrator, she soon rose to be director of the art and literary section. It was not until 1951 that she took to painting as her medium of choice. A recipient of a fellowship from the Spanish government, M.
L. Pacheco travelled to Madrid to attend the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. She also frequented the studio of Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1969), a neo-cubist portrait and landscape artist interested in planes, colour and light, who, along with Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), would profoundly influence her art.
Returning to La Paz in April 1952, she taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, soon becoming