Miguel Ángel Pareja, the master of colour

Galería de las Misiones starts the year with an exhibition named "Miguel Ángel Pareja, the master of colour" where we can find a comprehensive set of artworks that represents most of the career of the artist in chronological terms but also in the thematic that this genius of colour undertook during his career. There is a special emphasis on abstraction and on the rural life and the gaucho, this gaucho that he describes in their essential aspects and their environment.
Miguel Ángel Pareja lived from 1908 to 1984. Considered one of the great Uruguayan artists he was an original and singular painter due to his treatment of colour, he alternated painting with teaching, abstraction and figuration, he promoted muralism and making art available to the general public, and all of this striving for a context of freedom which he deemed essential for creation and for the individual’s development.