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LUIS MIGUEL PORTILLA: " the art exists to humanize the world "

The young man is of Chachapoyas (the North Peru). He is inhabited by a whole inheritance, a culture, that he sings in his group Illarek, and that he(it) immortalizes in his paint. This " worker of the art " as his name is himself(itself), done something of shaman by resuming(by taking back) the mythological faces of the history of his people, before and during the Spanish colonization. So according to paintings we meet the main clauses(head teachers), of Pachamama (the " earth mother ") in the divinities of the water and the forest; the represented bestiary is symbolic and also reflects the universe of the mountain range, the Amazonia, the Andes. Technically, Luis Portilla often uses natural pigments, ink which he makes from plants, That he mixes with other mediums. Dreams, legends, animism, traditions and strong symbols: the paint very colored with this artist rapidly expanding already celebrated in Latin America draw its depth at the source of the authentic roots, at the beginning of the world, when the man and the nature made only one, when the gods reigned with benevolence over the creation.
Luis Portilla presents his works in a "Tour de France" which stops to saint Pée on Level the time of a weekend (on Saturday, 21 and Sunday, January 22nd, 2017). A luck exceptional and almost unique to discover its work, to meet the artist.
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LUIS MIGUEL PORTILLA: " the art exists to humanize the world "The young man is of Chachapoyas (the North Peru). He is inhabited by a whole inheritance, a culture, that he sings in his group Illarek, and that he(it) immortalizes in his paint. This " worker of the art " as his name is himself(itself), done something of shaman by resuming(by taking back) the mythological faces of the history of his people, before and during the Spanish colonization. So according to paintings we meet the main clauses(head teachers), of Pachamama (the " earth mother ") in the divinities of the water and the forest; the represented bestiary is symbolic and also reflects the universe of the mountain range, the Amazonia, the Andes. Technically, Luis Portilla often uses natural pigments, ink which he makes from plants, That he mixes with other mediums. Dreams, legends, animism, traditions and strong symbols: the paint very colored with this artist rapidly expanding already celebrated in Latin America draw its depth at the source of the authentic roots, at the beginning of the world, when the man and the nature made only one, when the gods reigned with benevolence over the creation.Luis Portilla presents his works in a "Tour de France" which stops to saint Pée on Level the time of a weekend (on Saturday, 21 and Sunday, January 22nd, 2017). A luck exceptional and almost unique to discover its work, to meet the artist.

When was Luis Miguel Portilla Luis Miguel Portilla born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1986