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Olga de Amaral
Colombian textile and visual artist (born 1932)
Olga de Amaral (born 1932[1]) is a Colombian textile and visual artist known for her large-scale abstract works made with fibers and covered in gold and/or silver leaf.
Because of her ability to reconcile local concerns with international developments, de Amaral became one of the few artists from South America to become internationally known for her work in fiber during the 1960s and ‘70s.[2] She is also considered an important practitioner in the development of postwar Latin AmericanAbstraction.
She currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.[3]
Biography and education
Olga de Amaral was born Olga Ceballos Velez in 1932 in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, to parents from Colombia's Antioquia region.[4] She was raised in a traditional religious family with 5 sisters and 2 brothers.
She grew up in a traditional neighbourhood in Bogotá in a warm, safe family atmosphere,