Antonio Peláez [SEP] country of citizenship
Antonio Peláez
Antonio Peláez (b. 1921 – d. 1994) was a Mexican artist of Spanish origin, who began his career in portraits but in the 1950s shifted to abstract art, concerned with texture, color and the use of space. His work was recognized by a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and a tribute by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana after his death.
Life.
Antonio Peláez was born in Llanes, Asturias in the north of Spain in 1921.
a 1943 Uruguayan birth certificate with a letter asking Peru's military dictator Francisco Morales Bermúdez (the country was then run by a US-friendly junta) for Peruvian citizenship, which Peru granted in 1979.
In 1983, "Juan Lazaro" married Vicky Peláez. Peláez was a television reporter in Peru, and a columnist at "" in New York City. In her writings, Peláez often criticized US policy in Latin America, and supported "liberation" movements in those countries. In 1985, Peláez and "Lazaro