Rojo Azul Enstructurado, Oil on Wood, 1978.

Celeste y Limòn, Oil on Canvas, 1978.

Yellow Shrubs, Oil on Canvas.

Mountains in Black & White, Oil on Canvas, 2001.

Shrubs, Tizo and Pastel on Paper, 1994.

Enrique Tábara (born 1930 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is one of the most important artists of the last century. He is an Ecuadorian painter of universal importance and Tábara shares that pedestal with teachers of the stature of Picasso, Joan Miro, Eduardo Kingman, Oswaldo Guayasamin, Felix Arauz, Antoni Tàpies, Rufino Tamayo and Juan Villafuerte, audacious creators and forjadores of a whole Latin American pictorial and artistic culture. Tábara took interest in painting at the age of three, was drawing regularly by the age of six and was strongly encouraged by both his sister and his mother. Enrique Tábara nevertheless is a creator who far from taking refuge in the comfortable finding of an image, that is to him his own, he investigates and demystifies his image and finds refuge in her. The energetic and innovating spirit in Enrique Tábara is a constant that reveals the anxious and versatile spirit of the teacher. A master of experimentation, he is fully aware of his roots and the process that he has followed over the years, with an abundant mass of brilliant works to show for it. ImageMetadata File history File links TabaraStudio. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links CelesteYlimon_1978. ... Image File history File links CelesteYlimon_1978. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Tabara6. ... Image File history File links Tabara6. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Secondary office of the Ecuadorian central bank (Banco Central del Ecuador or BCE) in Guayaquil (December 8, 2004) Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil, is the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nations main sea port. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... ņOne of Ecuadors greatest 20th century artists, Eduardo Kingman (1913 - 1998) first studied under Victor Mideros at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in Quito. ... Felix Arauz (b. ... Antoni Tàpies (born in Barcelona, 1923) is a Catalan-Spanish painter. ... Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a popular modern Mexican painter. ... Villafuertes,Salvat Tomo IV Villafuertes, El Amor JUAN VILLAFUERTE (b. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ...

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In 1946, Tábara attended the School of Fine Arts and was mentored by German artist Hans Michaelson and Guayaquileno artist, Luis Martinez Serrano. In 1951, Tábara finished mastering the fundamentals and left art school. In 1955 the Ecuadorian government offered Tábara a scholoarship to study in Spain. Tábara's work was welcomed with great success in Spain and Tábara befriended surrealist Andre Breton and Modernist painter Joan Miro. By 1959, Tábara's work had gained a great deal of international attention. Andre Breton asked Tábara to represent Spain in the Homage to Surrealism Exhibition, among the works of Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Eugenio Granell. Miro praised Tábara's work and both artists had great respect for one another. While living in Barcelona, Tabara began painting with Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura, Monolo Millares and many other Spanish Infomalist artists. In 1963, Tábara represented Ecuador together with Humberto More' and Theo Constanté at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris for the Third Biennial of Paris. By 1964, Tábara's work was being shown in Lausanne, Milan, Grenchen, Vienna, Lisbon, Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, Guayaquil, Quito, Washington, and Paris. Andr Breton (February 18, 1896 - September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and Surrealist theoretician. ... Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind and the attainment of a state different from, more than, and ultimately truer than everyday reality: the sur-real, i. ... Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ... Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Antoni Tàpies (born in Barcelona, 1923) is a Catalan-Spanish painter. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German federal state of Bavaria. ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Secondary office of the Ecuadorian central bank (Banco Central del Ecuador or BCE) in Guayaquil (December 8, 2004) Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil, is the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nations main sea port. ... Map of Ecuador showing location of Quito. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Official languages None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire (D) Senators Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 6. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

After living and painting in Europe for over nine years Tábara felt that there was not enough being done in the name of Spanish Modern art so he returned to Ecuador in search of a new aesthtic. On his return to Ecuador in 1964, Tábara returned to his roots through the Latin American current of "ancestralism", which finds inspiration in pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the continent (third stage). Tábara is the first artist to use the Pre-Colombian motif as a search for a new aesthetic. Shortly after returning to Ecuador, Tábara founded two groups of Informalist artists that were in opposition to the Indigenists. One group was called GO and the other was called VAN. The VAN Group consisted of Tábara, Villacis, Maldonado, Almeida, Cifuentes, Muriel, and Molinari. These groups strongly opposed the Communist political views of Oswaldo Guayasamin and were always in search of new artistic pathways while never losing a connection to their roots.

Finally, Tábara started to paint simple shapes inspired in nature, and also other simple structures, such as his famed "Patas-Patas", or feet-feet, as well as insects and shrubs. Tábara is most known for his Patas-Patas works which contain legs with feet incorporated into the piece. When asked about this subject matter, Tábara says that one day he was drawing a figure but he didn't like it, so he ripped it up and the feet of the figure landed at his feet and thus his fate. It has also been suggested that Tábara's use of feet was a subtle statement in opposition to Guayasamin's use of hands. In some of Tábara's Patas-Patas works, the legs are bold focal points that stand out clearly. In other works, the legs are more obscure or seem to be hidden within shrubs, bones or abstract forms.

Tábara is an artist who is in a constant, infinite search. He likes to experiment and live "pictorical adventures". He believes that in art one has to pose difficult problems for oneself and solve them on the canvas. Today, Tábara is considered one of the most important artists of the last century.

Tábara continues to paint with a vigorous spirit in his home town of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Barcelona is considered Tábara's home away from home. Secondary office of the Ecuadorian central bank (Banco Central del Ecuador or BCE) in Guayaquil (December 8, 2004) Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil, is the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nations main sea port. ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...

References

• Arean, Carlos A., Tábara. Pelaez Editores, Centro de Arte Gala Banco de Guayaquil; Quito, Ecuador, 1990.

• Sullivan, Edward J., Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. Phaidon Press Limited; London, 1996.

• Personal Interview with Enrique Tábara.