Omar Calvillo Contemporary Artist Painter multifaceted artistic personality, works his work with various painting techniques among which watercolor, ink and acrylic. For his strong attachment to the Guatemalan culture, Omar Calvillo celebrates the fascinating cultural landscape of his country, and it evokes memories and memories translating pre-made color on emotions, which does clearly reflect harmonious. Omar Calvillo Biography The artist was born August 30, 1975 in Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala, Central America. His childhood and youth were spent in one of the most traditional neighborhoods of the Historic Center of Guatemala City so it grows surrounded by history, legends, customs and traditions, both of which mark his work. While still a child the start in 1986 at the age of 11 years, Omar Calvillo involved in the children's painting contest "Paint your country to the world" organized by a prestigious transnational textile firm offering a high recognition and a strong showing from early and artistic movement. The personal encounter at the age of 15 years, in 1990 in the secondary school where she won first place in the contest of verse and his paintings "Windmills" wins the painting competition. This work made with watercolor on blue paper is of utmost importance to Omar Calvillo as it means a personal encounter with its subject matter and technique to date shows a part of his work. The formation in 1997 joined the Faculty of Architecture, National Autonomous University of San Carlos de Guatemala, where students participate in some collective painting exhibitions. During these years despite their education, Omar Calvillo both developed and polished his technique as a self-taught style. In March 2006 he received the title of architect in the bachelor's degree. Also awareness of the college experience awareness and confronted with social and economic reality of their country, this circumstance added to the cultural and emotional baggage acquired by Omar Calvillo leads him to seek new supplies and materials for expression. During this stage, the artist absorbs a vast amount of information itself that subsequently result in pictorial form, interested and by historical, artistic and anthropological. Experimentation From 2003 to 2006 experiment with the china ink on paper, creating two monochromatic lines: A sepia color reflecting a stale perception of the past centuries entitled Guatemala: Guatemala Cuttlefish of "A current artistic vision Guatemala yesterday." And the other blue in that uses the ethereal and the ocean as an element of cohesion to paint landscapes of extreme beauty in an international context which titrated: Blue World "Windows of sky and sea on earth." The alternate addition to his taste for painting, Omar Calvillo is interested in literature and history so that in 2004 took charge of research for the book "RetroPerspectiva" which documents the history of construction Guatemala, a project sponsored by the concrete producer in the country's most prestigious. Also in 2005, participating as a researcher, editor and writer for historical documentaries country's largest liquor and a leading transnational pharmaceutical company. Contemporary in March 2007 is selected by a renowned furniture and contemporary art to inaugurate its program of support for national artist and performed his first solo exhibition. Following the opening of new styles and use of new materials in the work of Omar Calvillo arises in which a sample through the acrylic on canvas and moving in a line clearly contemporary artist captures the particular vision of what makes him Guatemala. Sample to which the headline: CromoFormología "An abstract approach to the Guatemalan cultural landscape." In July 2007, at the request of the City of La Antigua Guatemala, it is delivered in a private audience at the Palacio de la Zarzuela to Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain Omar Calvillo's painting "In a street to the west" which along with a poem by the same artist celebrates the historical link between Guatemala and Spain. In November 2007 he was invited by the Municipality of the city of La Antigua Guatemala to present along with other fine artists in the Guatemalan city of Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America, which participates in the exhibition titled: "Bays the moon belongs to the series" Lunar Complexity "metaphor that Omar Calvillo amalgam to the rugged surface of the moon with human elements such as emotions, feelings and values. The recent in April 2008, concretized aspiration: to expose something of the essence of the City of La Antigua Guatemala filtered through his own artistic perception in the Antiguan ground, so as at the headquarters of the Colegio Mayor Santo Tomás de Aquino University of San Carlos de Guatemala is mounted the exhibition: "The Street of Steps," twelve pieces painted using the technique of ink wash china in sepia on paper which are an exaltation likewise emblematic street is also the intention of the routine rescue all that has already left us wonder what is coming in August 2008, at the headquarters of the Guatemalan-American Institute, IGA, in Guatemala City, state the Sample: "Mediterranean Greek collection belonging to the Blue World. In this sample monochromatic blue and small format, the artist goes beyond his passion historical and architectural landscape to Greece Insular.