Oswaldo Vigas: The Venezuelan Painter Who History Should Remember

Some artists, like Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, and Wilfredo Lam, find their immortalized in art history, to the point where even those who have no interest in art recognize their names. Others, like the Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas, who was a contemporary of Picasso, Ernst, Calder and Lam, often socializing with the artists while he lived in Paris during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Vigas returned to Venezuela with his French wife Janine Vigas in the early ‘60s because he felt he could accomplish more in his home country than abroad. Although he would go on to become Venezuela’s most revered and prolific artists, his name would fade away into obscurity and remain practically unknown internationally. More…