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  Francisco Oller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oller was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, the third of four children of Cayetano Juan Oller y Fromesta and María del Carmen Cestero Dávila.
By 1865, Francisco Oller was known as the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic Impressionist artist and in 1868 he became the founder of The Free Academy of Art of Puerto Rico.
The Francisco Oller Museum where many artists, such as Tomas Batista, exhibit their work is located in the City of Bayamon,Puerto Rico and in Buffalo, New York there is a Francisco Oller and Diego Rivera Museum of Art.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_Oller   (493 words)

  
 History of puerto Rican Painting
José Campeche in the eighteenth century and Francisco Oller in the nineteenth century.
Oller considered this tradition absurd and the painting is a protest, but it is an honest representation and nothing is idealized.
Francisco Oller was the strongest artistic influence for two artist who developed at the first decades of the 20th century: Miguel Pou and Ramón Frade.
www.geocities.com /gloriaespada/historypainting.html   (1350 words)

  
 Francisco Manuel Oller Biography / Biography of Francisco Manuel Oller Biography
Francisco Manuel Oller (1833-1917) was a major Puerto Rican artist whose portraits of governors and slaves and landscapes of sugar plantations and peasant shacks celebrate both the island's natural beauty and its social strife.
Oller is cited as the only Latin American painter to play a role in the development of Impressionism.
"Francisco Oller was the first painter to ponder deeply on the meaning of Puerto Rico," wrote Haydée Venegas in Francisco Oller: Realist-Impressionist, the catalogue of a 1983 Oller retrospective at the Ponce Art Museum in Puerto Rico.
www.bookrags.com /biography-francisco-manuel-oller   (248 words)

  
 Modern and Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists: Francisco Oller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Oller studied from 1851 to 1853 at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, and later in Paris from 1858 to 1863.
Oller abandoned Impressionism when he settled permanently again in Puerto Rico in 1884, turning to portraits and still-lifes rendered in a more sombre palette inspired by Courbet.
Oller’s training and exposure to modern European art made him an influential figure in Puerto Rico as both artist and teacher.
www.zenstudio.com /pr/artists/oller/oller.htm   (291 words)

  
 Museum of Anthropology, History, and Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Oller was one of the first Puerto Rican artists to study in Europe and an active participant in the Parisian artistic-avant garde movement during the development years of modern painting.
Oller's work and pedagogical labor from mid XIX century until his death are considered the elements that defined a Puerto Rican pictorial tradition at the beginning of the XX century.
Francisco Oller and José Campeche are among the most prominent artists of this period.
rrpac.upr.clu.edu /~humanity/museo/museoi.htm   (870 words)

  
 Puerto Rican Painter, History of Puerto Rican Painting
Francisco Oller is considered one of the most important Puerto Rican painters of the 19 th century.
Francisco Manuel Oller y Cestero was born on June 17, 1833 in Old San Juan.
His parents, Juan Oller y Fromesta and María del Carmen Cestero y Dávila, were descendants of Puerto Rico's Creole elite which allowed the young Francisco to enjoy the best that Puerto Rican society had to offer.
www.puertoricanpainter.com /pages/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm   (2189 words)

  
 PR Arte Pg1
Francisco Oller (1833-1917) quien nació casi cien años después que Campeche demostró un talento excepcional desde los doce años, que el estudio de la obra de los grandes maestros europeos ayudó a desarrollar.
Francisco Oller (1833-1917), born almost a hundred years after Campeche, showed exceptional talent from the age of twelve, and training by Spanish and French masters greatly developed it.
Oller was a realist who did much to modernize the conception of art.
www.antillania.com /PR_Arte_Pg1.htm   (1547 words)

  
 puerto rican life : culture site covering news, celebrities, literature, celebrations and more
Puerto Rico’s top painter of the 19th century, Francisco Oller, was born in 1833 in Bayamon.
Oller preferred to paint portraits and landscapes, and his work gained attention from many of his contemporaries.
Oller lived in Puerto Rico for much of his life, and married and opened art schools on the island.
www.puertoricanlife.com /article1019.html   (334 words)

  
 Puerto Rico's Culture: Arts and Crafts
Puerto Rican artists who are represented include José Campeche (1751-1809) and Francisco Oller (1833-1917).
Francisco Oller y Cestero, born in 1833, was also an eminent Puerto Rican painter.
Oller became the first Latin American artist to adapt the impressionists' interest in light and color to the tropical skies of Puerto Rico.
welcome.topuertorico.org /culture/artsc.shtml   (1683 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Features - Real Life
The exhibition opened with two works by Francisco Oller Y Cestero of Puerto Rico, Plantains and Bananas and Still Life with Coconuts (both from around 1893).
In these two large oils the artist excludes all else from view but the fruit, which he renders in loving detail, celebrating the luscious flora, and by extension, the land that produced it.
Francisco Matto of Uruguay, one of a number of artists who absorbed the grid-based Constructivism of Joaquín Torres-García at his influential workshop in Montevideo, shows an oil-on-wood relief, Removedor (1959), which depicts fruit in a bowl.
www.artnet.com /magazine/features/karlins/karlins5-24-00.asp   (748 words)

  
 Art and Literature - Arts - Puerto Rico - Caribbean: francisco oller, example poetry, enrique laguerre, alejandro ...
Francisco Oller was a painter of international renown.
Oller traveled to Spain and France in the 1850s, where he was influenced by impressionist painting.
Her novels The House on the Lagoon (1995) and Eccentric Neighborhoods (1998) were written in English.
countriesquest.com /caribbean/puerto_rico/arts/art_and_literature.htm   (449 words)

  
 Francisco Oller Posters Prints - A Portrait of Nina Art Giclee Print - Artist: Francisco Oller - Poster Size: 18x24 - ...
Francisco Oller Posters Prints - A Portrait of Nina Art Giclee Print - Artist: Francisco Oller - Poster Size: 18x24
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 Lions Fall 12-6 :: Lions Fall 12-6
OLLER out at first p to 2b, SAC, bunt; STOEBER advanced to second; SMITH advanced to third.
OLLER homered to left field, 3 RBI; STOEBER scored, unearned; SMITH scored.
San Francisco 12, Loyola Marymount 6 (Mar 21, 2003 at San Francisco, CA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Loyola Marymount....
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 Puerto Rican Painter, Creative Artist & Painters of Puerto Rico
Painter Francisco Oller was born in San Juan, PR, in 1833.
In 1868, Oller founded his first Escuela de Dibujo, in San Juan.
Oller also taught drawing in PR public schools.
www.puertoricanpainter.com /index2.htm   (338 words)

  
 Lions Win 7-5 :: Lions Win 7-5
OLLER doubled to left center, 3 RBI; HIGASHI scored, unearned; PETTIT scored, unearned; LOCKIN scored, unearned.
OLLER advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Loyola Marymount 7, San Francisco 5 (Mar 23, 2003 at San Francisco, CA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Loyola Marymount....
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 Francisco Oller ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Francisco Oller (1560 - 1617) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
P.S. 61 Francisco Oller School, Bronx, New York
Biblioteca Francisco Oller - Escuela de Artes Plásticas
www.wwar.com /masters/o/oller-francisco.html   (59 words)

  
 Loyola Marymount 16, San Francisco 10 ::
5 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 7 OLLER, Jon 3b............
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ----------------------------------------------- Bryan WILLIAMS......
OLLER advanced to third on a wild pitch.
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 San Francisco 5, Loyola Marymount 7 ::
3 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 0 OLLER dh.................
San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ----------------------------------------------- Brian BORGMANN......
San Francisco 2nd - GAERLAN reached on a throwing error by 3b.
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 Web Lesson by Maritza Salgueiro-Carlisle of "El Velorio" by Francisco Oller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Language and level: Second semester of the first year of College Spanish
Learn about the Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller.
Practice the preterite form of the verbs in context.
www.clta.net /lessons/spanish/level3/oller.html   (194 words)

  
 Cinema Treasures | Teatro Francisco Oller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This monumental theater was built in 1938 in Bayamon, one of San Juan's metropolitan municipalities.
It was built as a community theater by the Oller family.
If you have a question about a recent ticket purchase or need to contact theater management, please contact the theater directly.
cinematreasures.org /theater/12634   (210 words)

  
 Buffalo.com(SM) - Galleries & Museums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Paintings include The Buffalo Skyline, Niagara Falls and Shea's Performing arts center.
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera - Welcome to El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera!
From this website you can learn more about us, see what work we are currently exhibiting, find out about upcoming events, and contact us directly for further information.
www.buffalo.com /Arts_Entertainment/GalleriesMuseums_15.asp   (1762 words)

  
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Palabras de Amor, El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, N.Y. May 2002
Caribe: Mar y Tierra, Puerto Rico Tourism Company, San Juan, P.R. November 2001
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