Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo

Towards the forties and fifties of the last century, Colombian art began a profound process of renewal that would allow it to free itself from the rigid academic structures in force and make its way towards modernity that advanced without barriers in the world. Among the group of artists who at that time decisively assumed this generational struggle, the figure of Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo stands out. Inscribed without concessions in the figurative context, Gómez Jaramillo worked successfully and strived for innovation in chromaticism and the concept of the figure. This book, which opens with a masterful study by Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda on the painter's work, which is illustrated in color throughout its pages, settles an outstanding debt with one of the most serious precursors of current Colombian art.