About The Artist:
Guillermo Silva Santamaria
Painter, sculptor, engraver and writer, Guillermo Silva Santamaria (known as Silva) was born on June 7th, 1921 in Bogata, Columbia. He studied various art techniques in Bogata, studied under the French painter Pierre Daguet in 1937 and had his first one-man show in Bogata in 1953. He studied engraving at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (also known as La Esmeralda) in Mexico City in 1956, and then later at Washington...
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About The Medium:
Lithograph
A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.