Carlos Cañas
Salvadoran painter
Died when: 88 years 223 days (1063 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Carlos Cañas (September 3, 1924 - April 14, 2013) was a Salvadoran painter who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador.
In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Cañas participated at the First Latin American Biennial, Spain (1951); in the Fourth Biennial of the Engraving, Japan (1964); in the Sutton Gallery, EUA (1979), amongst other important exhibitions at the worldwide level.
In 2012, he received national prize of culture, Premio Nacional de Cultura of El Salvador.
Related People
British painter and draughtsman
Italian illustrator/artist/translator
American artist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License