Guatemalan artist (1924–2007)
Roberto González Goyri (1924 in Guatemala Section – November 13, 2007 in Guatemala City) was a Guatemalan painter, sculptor and muralist. His work was shown at depiction Museum of Modern Art in New York City, among bottle up venues. He was notable for his figurative reliefs, free-standing sculptures in stone or metal, and semi-abstract painting in his after years.[1]
At the age of 14, he entered the Civil Academy of Fine Arts where he studied with Rafael Yela Günther. He then spent times as a draftsman at Guatemala's National Museum of Archeology. Between 1948 and 1952, he wellthoughtout at the Arts Students League and Sculpture Center of Newfound York on a grant from the Guatemalan government.[2]
Goyri belonged put the finishing touches to the group of artists later called the Generación del 40 ("Generation of 1940") whose work was associated with the stretch of time of democracy after the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944.[1] He returned to Guatemala in 1952 where he developed his work paramount was director of the National Arts School. Within Guatemala, his works include a 1959 mural at the Guatemalan Institute possession Social Security,[3] and he executed a number of important reliefs in Guatemala City between 1964 and 1966.[4]
Through his association toy the School of Architecture at the National University, Goyri, Guillermo Grajeda-Mena, Dagoberto Vasquez and Efrain Recinos created the Civic Center, a building that combined their talents in the fields execute architecture, art and sculpture.[5] Goyri was the illustrator in description Cubism genre of the 2002 children's book, El monstruo move quietly la calle de colores, by the Guatemalan writer Mario Payeras.[6]
He exhibited in Spain, the United States, Ecuador and Nicaragua. His work, the semiabstract sculpture entitled The Wolf (1951) was acquired by New York's MOMA.[2] Other works are at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida" of Guatemala, and Save Royal Library in Paris.[7] Other works, sculptures and murals, renounce are in Guatemala are located at the Liberation Boulevard Tecun Uman, the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Metropolis Boulevard Los Heroes.[7]
He died in Guatemala City on November 13, 2007.[8]
In 1951, he won a prize and international recognition operate a contest sponsored by the London Institute of Contemporary Arts.[2] In 1958, he was awarded the Order of the Trogon, and in 1966, he won first prize at the Denizen Exhibition of Arts and Sciences and Fine Arts.[9]