Name: David Coello
Topic: Artists in Honduras
Teacher: Ms.Canizales
Class: Artistic Language
Date: 3/11/2022
Honduras and Art
Honduras does have a thriving folk art scene. Best known are the
country's primitivist painters, such as José Antonio Velásquez
(1906-83) and Pablo Zelaya Sierra (1896-1933). The Lenca’s are
also known throughout Central America for their pottery and
ceramics. There are several methods that are highly regional. In La
Paz, black-and-white and zoomorphic forms play predominantly in
the designs, while in La Campa, the ceramics are known for the
use of red engobe clay. Finally, the artisans in Valle del Ángeles
are prized for their wood and leather work, while the Santa
Bárbara area is known for producing excellent junco-palm hats,
baskets, and mats.
Some objectives:
Learn about our underground art
Show the variety of art in our country
Learn the different types of art in our country
Music:
Tux Lunan is a Honduran band with strong Brit-pop and
alternative rock influences that was born at the end of 2015
and is currently recording its first studio album. If the music
scene in the region is considered, there is no history of what
they do, that's why they become young people who, in one
way or another, are making avant-garde. The compositions
are made by the vocalist and guitarist Oscar Garay. All the
members of the band contribute to the musical
arrangements of their songs, and this gives diversity of styles
to their music without being aligned to a specific genre.
Their most intense position has to do with covers: they will not do any in their career
Atomic Rose is a group from Tegucigalpa,
made up of Daniel Frañó (producer and
guitarist), Gabriel Fléfil (bassist), Iván
Zaldivar (vocalist), Eduardo Moreno
(drummer) and Daniela Aguilar (lead
vocalist). Created in 2019, the band rose
to popularity with the release of their
Afterparty Blues EP in February 2020.
Also known as MDC, they create electro-pop
music that is a unique and energetic mix of
house, nu-disco and pop music. John Paul Lakes,
electronic music producer and singer-songwriter
Mar Boreal make up the duo. JP and Mar's
diverse musical experiences have resulted in a
sound that fuses dance rhythms with Mar's
singing style and can be beautiful yet strong.
Paintings
Theresa Fort. Honduran. She was a self-taught painter
who tried to paint in an academic style, then realistic,
and finally found her style in naif art, of which she has
been one of the outstanding artists of her country.
Max Euceda, was born in Tegucigalpa, in the year 1891, he
dedicated his whole life to art. Until the age of 30 he painted
and drew spontaneously, guided only by his personal
aptitude. However, in 1921, the Spanish Embassy in
Honduras organized a competition to award a scholarship to
study art in Madrid. Max Euceda was a naturalist painter,
which shows in his paintings, in portraits. Also, he taught
drawing classes for several years at the School of Fine Arts.
Jose Antonio Velazquez. One of the most important painters
in Honduras. With a naif style, he paints with an exuberant
color Honduran landscapes and scenes. He was considered the
first primitivist painter in America. He was also: sculptor,
photographer, merchant, and politician.
Sculpture
Honduran sculptor Darío Rivera makes a sculpture
along with other already completed works in an
outdoor space near a quarry, in the village of Joya
Grande, in the department of Francisco Morazán,
Honduras, on June 7, 2022. Graduated from the
National School of Fine Arts, Darío Rivera, is a teacher
in plastic arts and is one of the greatest exponents of
sculpture in Honduras
Adonay Navarro is A 15-year-old boy from
Lempira arrived in the Honduran capital in
the early 1990s with the idea of becoming
a wood carver. Now of facing what he was
about to experience, he realized that it
was more than he expected.
Stimulated by almost all of them by the artist Obed
Valladares, in the 1990s a promotion of creators who
made sculptures - who left their first traces in
terracotta – emerged
Film
Samy Kafati (December 21, 1936 - April 29, 1996; Tegucigalpa,
Francisco Morazán, Honduras) was a Honduran filmmaker and
documentary filmmaker of Palestinian Arab descent, creator of
the first Honduran film shot by a national director, the
experimental short film Mi Amigo Angel and later several
documentaries and feature films made in the 1970s. Currently,
many of his works are kept at the Autonomous University of
Honduras due to their historical importance.
We can say that the world of cinema is one of the
best means to capture your feelings, create
emotions and transmit positive messages to
citizens through moving images and this is
something that the talented Honduran filmmaker
Enrique Medrano.
Fosi Bendeck, born in Yoro, Honduras in 1941, was a Honduran actor and film
director. Fois, studied acting and directing in Rome, Italy in the years 1957
and 1960.The following year he traveled to New York City, specializing in
acting. Sometime later, he received production and television courses in
Mexico, between 1962 and 1963.In 1963, he returned to Honduras, where he
devoted himself for more than 20 years to teaching at the School of
Journalism of the National Autonomous University of Honduras. He is
considered one of the forerunners of cinema in his country and was a
recognized representative of national cinema abroad. In 1966 he acted in the
film "There is no land without an owner", by director Sammy Kafati.
Theater
Tito Ochoa admits that he has been directing plays since
he was twelve years old. He began in the popular Kennedy
neighborhood of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, then
as a student at the School of Dramatic Art (1980-82), he
directed with the memorable Grupo Rascaniguas
Rafael Murillo Selva-Rendón is a Honduran
playwright who has been carrying out his work for
40 years almost in silence and outside the Latin
American canon. His proposal starts from the
communities and is carried out with “non-
professional” actors from those same communities.
In other words, it varies the terms of dramaturgy
with the inversion of the entire theatrical discourse,
both Western and emancipatory.
Communications consultant and artistic producer,
producer of several television programs and plays,
Producer of the event "EL PRIDE DE LO NUESTRO",
Professor of the Communication and Theater area at
several Universities in Honduras. Managing Director of the
Ekela Itzá Company.
Mural on Wall Painting
Luis Vásquez is a Honduran who has decided to capture his
art through murals, which are full of color and sensitivity.
Vásquez stands out for creating works that reflect the daily
life of Hondurans, and residents or visitors applaud his
work and creativity.
Carlos Zúñiga Figueroa (Tegucigalpa, 1885-1964) was a
Honduran painter. He was born in the city of Tegucigalpa,
Republic of Honduras on June 5, 1885, died in 1964
Zúñiga Figueroa studied at the Royal Academy of San
Fernando in the city of Madrid, Spain, then studied at the
Lithography and Photography Studio in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. He was appointed Director of the "National
Type-Lithography" for seven consecutive years. He then
entered politics and was Minister and representative of
Honduras in the Republic of Costa Rica, for four years.
Confucio Montes de Oca He is originally from La Ceiba, department
of Atlántida. He was born in 1896 and died in 1925, at the age, as
can be seen, of just twenty-nine years old. From a very young age he
manifested his artistic inclinations, especially regarding drawing, for
which he had to receive early stimuli
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