Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white, red and yellow. He was part of the Op Art movement.

Jun 7, 2010 · Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white, red and yellow.

Over the course of his distinguished career, the Colombian artist Omar Rayo practiced drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and painting in a range of styles that encompassed elements of caricature, Pop, and Op art.

Omar Rayo (Colombian, January 20, 1928–June 7, 2010) was an artist involved in various types of artwork, such as painting, sculpture, plastic, and caricature. He was best known for using Abstract Geometry as his style.

Omar Rayo was a Colombian artist best known for his geometric abstract paintings. View Omar Rayo’s 346 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white, red and yellow.

Jan 6, 2023 · Omar Rayo was born January 20, 1928, in Roldanillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He began his artistic career as a caricaturist drawing and illustrating for local media in Cali and Bogota, and published an album with twenty caricatures of famous people such as Bolivar, Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, among others.

Omar Rayo (b. Roldanillo, Colombia 1928 – d. Palmira, Colombia 2010) was a Colombian artist recognized for his blending of Op Art, abstraction, and Latin folklore and for his pioneering optical kinetics in sculpture and paintings such as his Ritmocromías.

Omar Rayo is one of the most important Colombian artists of the 20th century. His work is characterized by a singular geometric language.

Omar Rayo studied drawing by mail through a program offered by the Academia Zier in Buenos Aires (1946), and in 1947 he worked in Cali as a caricaturist and an illustrator. He moved to Bogotá in 1948, where he obtained notoriety for his technical innovations he called “woodisms” in which he rendered the skin of figures so as that it ...