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	"Camaleón Cromático" Featuring new works by the Atlanta based, Latin American group of Artists, CONTRAPUNTO Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:30pm until 9:30pm in EDT Contact Information: Blue Mark Studios ... Address: 892 Jefferson Street, Atlanta GA. 30318 Phone: 404-835-2463 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 404-835-2463 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Opening Reception Thursday, June 7, 2012, 6:30 to 9:30PM   This exhibit has been named "Camaleón Cromático " (Chromatic Chameleon) as a way to connect visually with the audience through the use of a variety of colors seen in the work of these five outstanding contemporary Latino artists. The artists in CONTRAPUNTO found a strong similitude to how chameleons use color to communicate and their own work. CONTRAPUNTO is a group of Latino Visual Artists living and working in Atlanta and the surrounding areas. The group was started by Venezuelan Surrealist Painter Carlos Solis to bring awareness to people about the background of Latin Americans and to partner with more Latin American artists in an effort to build a prominent role on the art scene and to create more opportunities for Latin American artists. Currently its members include Peruvian Surrealist Abstraction Painter Pedro Fuertes, Dominican Abstract Painter Jose Pena, Mexican Contemporary and Abstract Painter Jorge Arcos, Venezuelan Tropical Pop Artist Stanley Bermudez and Carlos Solis. To learn more about the individual artists and to view some of their work online, please visit their websites by clicking on their names below: * Jorge Arcos * Stanley Bermudez * Pedro Fuertes * Jose Pena * Carlos Solis *
	©2012 Blue Mark Studios, 892 Jefferson Street, Atlanta, GA 30318

Art Talk

ARTIST TALK(in conjunction with the exhibition "Contrapunto")

Saturday May 19, 3-5 PM
Please join us for an informal conversation with four of the artists as they discuss their work, the creative process and share some perspectives on issues in Latin American Art

"Artists from Latin America have consistently and imaginatively forged their own centers ably moving between Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and often instigating, igniting, and cross fertilizing some of the twentieth century’s most far reaching and significant artistic movements and practices, from cubism and surrealism to constructivism and abstraction".

Left to Right: Carlos Solis, Jose Pena, Pedro Fuertes and Stanley Bermudez Photo: Jeff Orr

“Contrapunto: Six Contemporary Latin American Artists” presents the work of six artists of Latin heritage who have settled in the United States and have lived or live in the Atlanta area.

The works in the exhibition span a range of modern and contemporary art practices - from early modernism to classical surrealism, to pop, to abstraction to color field, and photography. Artists represented are Aixa Caldera, Alexis Mendoza, Carlos Solis, Jose Pena, Pedro Fuertes and
Stanley Bermudez.

The exhibition runs thru May 31. Gallery Hours are Thurs-Sat noon-6 pm and other times by appointment.


See Photos of Opening
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The Falling Forest

Oil on Canvas

16" x 20"

2012

I'm selling prints of the following paintings:
The Conquistador
The Good Samaritan
The Fall of False Revolution
El Negro Primero
and more

Price:$35
Size: 17" 11"

Contact # 678-920-3425

The Empty Shell

Oil on Canvas

20" x 16"

2012

Art Exhibit_Group Contrapunto

                              

                                         

El Negro Primero

El Negro Primero (The First Black)

Oil on canvas

30" x 26"

2012

Pedro Camejo, better known as Negro Primero, or 'The First Black' (San Juan de Payara, Venezuela, 1790 – Campo Carabobo, Venezuela, June 24, 1821) was a Venezuelan soldier who at first fought with the royal army, only to later go over to the rebel army during the Venezuelan War of Independence, reaching the rank of lieutenant.
The nickname of Negro Primero was inspired by his bravery and skill in handling spears, and because he was always in the first line of attack on the battlefield. It is also attributed to his having been the only officer of colour in the army of Simon Bolívar.

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Camejo was a slave of Vicente Alonzo in Apure. At the beginning of the movement for independence he was part of the royalist army. He joined the cause of liberation in 1816, entering the ranks, in Apure, of General Páez with whom it is said he struck up a great friendship. In 1818, when the General-in-Chief Simón Bolívar arrived in San Juan de Payara, during the Campaign of the Centre, he saw Camejo for the first time. The bravery and robustness of the warrior, together with the recommendation given by General José Antonio Páez, awoke Bolívar's interest, and he then struck up a brief conversation, formulating some questions which Pedro Camejo answered with ingenuity and simplicity, explaining that while he had initially joined the ranks of the republican army out of greed, he had later understood that the struggle had other, higher purposes.

He was one of the 150 lancers who participated in the Battle of Las Queseras del Medio, and on that occasion he received the Order of Liberators of Venezuela. In the Battle of Carabobo, he fought with one of the cavalry regiments of the first division commanded by José Antonio Páez. Eduardo Blanco, in his book "Venezuela Heroica", describes the moment when, gravely wounded, Camejo presented himself before General Páez and, with an unfailing voice said to him: "My general, I come to tell you goodbye, because I am dead". It is curious that José Antonio Páez in his autobiography does not describe the well-known actions of Camejo in the Battle of Carabobo, but rather limits himself to saying that Camejo fell mortally wounded with the first shots.