Pedro de Oraá
Pedro de Oraá was a Cuban contemporary visual artist, best known for his contributions to the Cuban abstract movement of Concretism in the 1950s and his involvement in the group Los Once in 1956 and the co-founding of Los Diez Pintores Concretos known simply as, Los Diez with fellow artists Loló Soldevilla and Sandú Daríe, in 1957. He was a painter, art critic, poet, designer, translator, and the beneficiary of many awards such as the Distinction for National Culture in 1995, the National Book Design Prize in 2011 and the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015.
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About Pedro de Oraá
Pedro de Oraá was a Cuban contemporary visual artist, best known for his contributions to the Cuban abstract movement of Concretism in the 1950s and his involvement in the group Los Once in 1956 and the co-founding of Los Diez Pintores Concretos known simply as, Los Diez with fellow artists Loló Soldevilla and Sandú Daríe, in 1957. He was a painter, art critic, poet, designer, translator, and the beneficiary of many awards such as the Distinction for National Culture in 1995, the National Book Design Prize in 2011 and the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015.
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Pedro de Oraá is based in Cuba.
When was Pedro de Oraá born?
Pedro de Oraá was born in 1931.
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Pedro de Oraá is from Cuban.