Oswaldo Guayasamín Historical Timeline and Map
FAU Galleries-Guayasamín-Fall 08
Year
Artwork Title
Topic
Broader Historical Context
1937
1940
1940
1941
1941
1941
1941
1942
1943
1968-69
Indians in Ecuador
Dragged
Conquistadors
The Accident
Mother and Child
Execution
Dragged
The Dead Children
Machine-gunned man
La espera III, VI, and VIII
Indigenous peoples
First version
The Spanish Invasion of the Americas
A dead miner, killed while working
Poverty and hunger
Innocents killed
Final Version, pulling an animal
Manjarres, the artist's friend, is killed at age 10 in a 4-day civil war
Undignified death of an impoverished man
Mothers and Widows of The Spanish Civil War
1970
Meeting at the Pentagon I-V
Brutal and corrupt politicians
1976
1976-77
1983
1996
Napalm
Los Torturados
The Cry I-III
Rigoberta Menchú
One of the horrors of the Vietnam War
Victor Jarre's murder by the Pinochet government in Chile
Argentina "Dirty Wars"
Indigenous Guatemalan civil-rights activist and Nobel Laureate
2002
The Chapel of Man
Cultural complex dedicated to Guayasamín work; a posthumous
tribute
On going indigenous rights struggle
Hardship
Invasion
Dangerous working conditions
Impoverishment
Political Turmoil
Hardship
1942 Consolidation of National Workers Party
(1937-1945) Guayasamín Early Period
1936-39 Invasion of Spain by Germany/Italy Guayasamín (1964-1990)
Age of Wrath Series
Reference to U.S. sponsored military coups in South America during the
1960s
Napalm was heavily used during the war in Vietnam
1973 Pinochet toppled the government of Allende
Early 1970s - Early 1980s Military junta persecutes own citizens
1992 Rigoberta Menchú represented her people’s struggle for human
right
A celebration of humanity and dedication to the peoples of Latin America
and the world
Meeting at the
Pentagon, I-V
1970
Los
Torturados,
1976-77
The Cry I-III,
1983
La Espera
III, VI, &
VIII,
1968-69
Napalm,
1976