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Beatriz González

Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, 1938) is an artist from Colombia working in different media including painting, graphic arts, drawing and sculpture. González´s art has been associated with conceptual art, appropriation, and more recently, global Pop art. Gonzalez´s work was jumpstarted as a student at Universidad de los Andes by art historian and critic, Marta Traba, who linked her to an older generation of avant-garde colombian artists, mostly male painters, which included Alejandro Obregón, Ramirez-Villamizar, Enrique Grau, Edgar Negret and Fernando Botero. González is known for her use of popular imagery and photography taken from popular media such as magazines, newspapers and publicity, as reference for her works.

Beatriz González has also worked as pedagogist, having started the school of guides at the Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá. Consequently she became a mentor to several generation of artists such as Doris Salcedo.

Beatriz González has worked as a scholar and curator first at the National Museum of Colombia and later at Museo de Arte del Banco de la República.

Santiago Cárdenas, Álvaro Barrios,

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