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The painter Jitoma Sofiame was born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and raised inside the country, graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, has made over 30 solo and group exhibitions in Bogotá, Caracas, Miami and Washington, Professor of Fine Arts and winner of numerous awards: First national painting prize Girardot 1962, first prize Inter Hall Armando Reveron, Caracas 1977, first American Living Award for Painting, Miami, 1990.

   Title: Musicians

  Technique: Oil on canvas textured

  Dimensions: 114 cm x 146 cm

  Sofiame Jitoma's work is unparalleled in the history of art, as the authentic expression of a unique historical phenomenon: the revival of the art of American Indian cultures

  

 Title: Owl with fruit

Technique: Oil on canvas textured

Dimensions: 65 cm x 1 meter

  The importance of his work lies in being the result of research conducted by him, and on rock art (rock paintings, petroglyphs and sculptures) found throughout America in particular on the Andes, where they are entered lytic pages knowledge of the cultures of the American Indian. It then moves the fundamental characteristics of his work, such as signs, symbols, legends and traditions of our mythology primordial life.

  Title: Native and  Condor wounded
Technique: Oil on canvas textured
Dimensions: 70 cm x 1 m

"It is therefore Jitoma Sofiame, who through their work makes the main contribution of the continent truly universal contemporary American Indian art."

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