Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Colombian Artists, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Débora Arango, Kaleth Morales, Fernando Botero, Andrés Cabas, Andrés Useche, Olga de Chica, List of Colombian Artists, Umaña, Juan D'greck, Pedro Restrepo, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Miguel de La Espriella, Nadín Ospina, Guilloume Perez-Zapata, Enrique Grau, Saúl Balagura, Alejandro Fischer, Álvaro Valbuena, Nicolas de La Hoz, Hernando Osorio, Pedro Nel Gómez, María Teresa Hincapié, Mario Opazo, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo. Excerpt: Alejandro Fischer (born October 23, 1971) is a figurative Colombian artist.Early life and education He was born in Bogotá in a family of artists. 1989 he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design , Providence, RI, 1994 1995 the Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, 1995 the B.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , 1998 The Boston Architectural College , Boston."I am living the dream that other, greater men, lived when they decided to paint with oils."Alejandro Fischer, Colombian newspaper: El Espectador "One apt brushstroke is all I'm searching for.."Alejandro Fischer, Colombian newspaper: El Espectador Exhibitions See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Álvaro Valbuena Álvaro Valbuena is a Colombian artist born in 1941 in Bucaramanga , Colombia. He began painting in 1960, and lived and worked in Paris , France from 1975 until 1984. In 1984 he began his work at the Frans Masserel Centre in Belgium . In 1994, he produced frescoes in Tuscany , Italy .Valbuena s works can be found in museums, galleries and private collections throughout Europe , North and South America .Tallador (oil on cloth) Years 1980Contrabajo