Débora Arango
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Débora Arango (November 11, 1907-December 4, 2005) was a Colombian painter. She was born in Medellín, Colombia as the daughter of Castor María Arango Díaz and Elvira Pérez.
Debora studied from 1920 and 1960 plastic arts and painting at various institutions (primarily in Medellín), like La Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (English:The National School Of Beautiful Arts), Ciudad de México DF (Mexico City DF), and the Technical College Of Reading in London,United Kingdom.
Debora later became a professor at the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Institute Of Beautiful Arts) in Medellín from 1933-1935.
She was honored in Colombia. She was the first woman in her proper country to paint bare people in her epoch, and poked at politicians as animals, an example Francisco Franco. Franco got rid of her art in Madrid as an exposition in 1955.
Some of her well recognized paintings are: Las Monjas y el cardenal,El almuerzo de los pobres,El Cristo,Huida del Convento,La monja intelectual,En el jardín,Bailarina en descanso,Los cargueros,Los matarifes,Clavel rojo, and La Maruchenga.
She donated most of her artwork to El Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín(The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellín) in 1987, which included 223 of her own masterpieces.
