User:Doogiemeister/Jose Guillermo Mora Noli

Jose Guillermo Mora Noli (1923 - 1981). Sculptor, architect, professor of art, founder of the school of Cylindrical Constructivism known as "Cilindrismo,"http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0191/t019194.asp and known as the father of modern Panamanian sculpture http://books.google.com/books?id=r2PwHzjmWbcC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=%22mora+noli%22+sculptor&source=bl&ots=a3w7fUT2z2&sig=A49keHUXEfEwt4na0fKXTRysKmM&hl=en&ei=cbLKSu_EC92Ltgfg4vXtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=%22mora%20noli%22%20sculptor&f=false. He studied at the National Arts Institute in Panama City, Panama. Later he studied with the renowned painters Humberto Ivaldi and portraitist Charles Villalaz and world acclaimed sculptors José de Creeft at the Art Students League of New York and the French sculptor Eduardo Chassaing, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mora Noli's works are in the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art(MOMA)http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/P_S_ArtistsRecordsf, the Corcoran gallery in Washington D.C. and the National Fine Arts Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribunehttp://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kS4V37G2WwB_lNGzy1LUG5I62tIxv9wGWjr85jgo1bo?feat=directlink, TIEMPO de México, el Almanaque Mundial, Informativo, el Mundo, Art News, Glamour Magazine, the Chicago Sun and National Geographichttp://books.google.com/books?id=r2PwHzjmWbcC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=%22mora+noli%22+sculptor&source=bl&ots=a3w7fUT2z2&sig=A49keHUXEfEwt4na0fKXTRysKmM&hl=en&ei=cbLKSu_EC92Ltgfg4vXtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=%22mora%20noli%22%20sculptor&f=false. His works are documented in the Library of Congresshttp://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=mora+noli&Search_Code=GKEY%5E*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick, the National Art Libraryhttp://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=A2547963II206.6643&profile=nal&uindex=NKW&term=Mora-Noli,%20Jos%C3%A9%20Guillermo,%201923-&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&source=%7E%21horizon#focus, Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phraseshttp://books.google.com/books?id=nUNkHhmZz3UC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=%22mora+noli%22+studied&source=bl&ots=whemWASJXm&sig=xdWAXBgyJ41F1DCZ5FGUx_RPEf8&hl=en&ei=CrPKSqCsLcantgfQlPXtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q&f=false, and the University of Venice (IUAV)http://iuavbc.iuav.it/sbda/search.php?page=903&SOLOGET=1&NOPUNTOI=1&EW4_TBL=1&EW_FL=limits_na_ad.php&EW4_DLL=50&EW4_NMI=1&EW4_CJL=1&NDEF=Biblioteca%21di%21Design%21industriale%21e%21della%21moda&LDEF=ADIDATA=SI&EW_RM=50&EW_K=N&EW_R=AF=&EW_PC=SO=&EW_PZ=AFS=&EW_PT=LT_EW&EW_P=LDB_EW&EW_D=4NEW&EW_DT=NEW&EW_T=MS&EW=151547&EW_NT=:%21avanti&EW_EP=0151500&EW_RP=10&&.

In 1936, He won the first prize at Exposición de Niños Artistas de Cinco Continentes held in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1942 he presented himself as a professional sculptor and exhibited in Washington, DC. In 1944, he made his first exhibition in Panama and in the same year he was awarded a scholarship to enter the Chicago Art Institute and Art Students League of New York. When he returned to Panama he sculpted the monument to the heroine Rufina Alfaro, the first sculptor to create a work of this magnitude in Panama. He was the creator of a style and form of expression "cilindrismo", of which there are numerous books. His work includes such subjects as Indian figures and heroes. His concern for historical identity was expressed through emphasis on raw form and natural design. His works include: Obras: III exposición Mora Noli escultor panameño (1935), Arte cilíndrico (1962), Esculturas (1965), Esculturas de Mora Noli: No. 3 (1967), Esculturas de Mora Noli: no. Works: III exposure Panamanian sculptor Noli Mora (1935), Art Spur (1962), Sculpture (1965), Sculpture, Mora Noli: No. 3 (1967), Sculpture, Mora Noli: no. 2 (1966), Esculturas: No 4: el cabecilla (1968). 2 (1966) Sculpture: No 4: the leader (1968). (Tomado de: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Encuentro de Esculturas. -- Panamá: Impresora Comercial, 1987. -- 55 p.). (From: Museum of Contemporary Art. Encuentro de Sculpture. - Panama: Commercial Printers, 1987. - 55 p. CDV updated 9/12/2004). Critica en Linea, "Jose Guillermo Mora Noli" --Jose Morales Vasquez