Andrés de Santa Maria

Why this artist matters now

Andrés de Santa Maria was a Colombian painter whose intensely chromatic, gestural oil paintings placed him among the earliest Latin American practitioners of a post-Impressionist idiom. Working across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his canvases prioritize saturated color and expressive brushwork over academic convention, setting his output apart from contemporaries across the region. His work is held by the Museo Nacional de Colombia.