About Carlos Cañas
Lived 1924 – 2013 (aged 88). Carlos Cañas was a Salvadoran painter and painting.
Carlos Cañas (September 3, 1924 – April 14, 2013) was a Salvadoran painter who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador. In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Cañas participated at the First Latin American Biennial, Spain (1951); in the Fourth Biennial of the Engraving, Japan (1964); in the Sutton Gallery, USA (1979), amongst other important exhibitions at the worldwide level.
In 2012, he received the national prize of culture Premio Nacional de Cultura of El Salvador.
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Who was Carlos Cañas?
Salvadoran painter
When was Carlos Cañas born?
Carlos Cañas was born on 3 September 1924 in San Salvador.
When did Carlos Cañas die?
Carlos Cañas died on 14 April 2013 in San Salvador.
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Carlos Cañas was a painter and painting.
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Carlos Cañas was Salvadoran.
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