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=Alberto Gómez Gómez= Alberto Gómez Gómez (born 12 December 1956) is a figurative artist, painter and master printer, from Bogotá, Colombia. He is best known for producing monumentally scaled murals in public forums. He is among the most honored living artists from Latin America, and his art can be found in highly visible places in the European capitals of Spain, Belgium, Johannesburg, Moscow, Germany, and United Kingdom. In Central America his work is found in Panama and Mexico. South American works by Gómez Gómez are in: Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil and, of course, Bogotá, Colombia [4]. North American Capitals that host his work include New York City, Washington D.C., Miami and Orlando, Florida.

Early Life
Near the beginning of his life he envisioned a modest career in the arts and has since realized goals that he could not have dreamt of in rural Colombia. Working most of the year in Central Florida in the last two decades, he has achieved recognition for his murals, paintings, drawings and print editions, with exhibitions throughout Latin America and the United States.[5] His art is collected by many museums, major corporations and private collectors.

Style
First and foremost Goméz Goméz is a fine arts draftsman and painter. His adept portrayals of human figures, nature, architecture and landscape allow for convincing and seemingly natural juxtapositions which are nevertheless self-contradictory, if not completely impossible. His signature style depicts people, figures, and the quotidian ephemera of daily life presented in unusual points of view sometimes accommodating several perspectives in a single picture plane (i.e.; a bird's eye view might be made to coexist with a child's perspective). His temporal context is equally malleable (as in a tradition stretching back to medieval painters, Giotto and Cimabue, past, present and future are often represented simultaneously). Any of all of these devices will be marshaled to thematize political commentary, self deprecating humor, deep spiritual commitment, or all of the above, depending on the piece.