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| - Alfonso Meléndez Arana (1927–2005) was a Puerto Rican painter. Arana was a Puerto Rican artist born in New York City. When he was young, the family moved to San Sebastián, Puerto Rico where the young painter spent his youth. At age six, Arana made his first picture and presented it to his mother. His father, a businessman, did not want his son to become an artist. This caused a major rift between father and son. Of his art, Arana said: Arana taught his daughter, Rosa Ibarra, who also went on to study and exhibit art in Paris, France. (en)
- Alfonso Meléndez Arana (Nueva York, 31 de marzo de 1927 - París, 18 de noviembre de 2005) fue un pintor boricua (puertorriqueño). Arana nació en la ciudad de Nueva York, de padre mexicano y madre puertorriqueña.Cuando era joven la familia se mudó a San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, donde el joven pintor pasó su adolescencia. A los seis años Arana hizo su primer retrato y lo presentó a su madre. Su padre, un negociante no quería que su hijo fuera artista. Esto causó grandes desavenencias entre padre e hijo a lo largo de sus vidas. (es)
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| - Alfonso Meléndez Arana (1927–2005) was a Puerto Rican painter. Arana was a Puerto Rican artist born in New York City. When he was young, the family moved to San Sebastián, Puerto Rico where the young painter spent his youth. At age six, Arana made his first picture and presented it to his mother. His father, a businessman, did not want his son to become an artist. This caused a major rift between father and son. As a young man, Arana studied art in Mexico at the , at the in New York, the Académie Julian and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris, and did post graduate work at the American University in Washington, D.C. As an artist, Arana became known for his style of almond-shaped, hollow yet expressive eyes in a face without a skull and with a slightly oversized body. He is also well known for his use of light, sophisticated and almost transparent colors. Arana himself defines his style as expressionism and mannerism. The artist once explained that his alive and expressive human figures do not have any skulls because "they are receptacles of the active things in the world as is God, nature, life, whatever we want." His works are often unsettling for the degree of expression shown by his silent figures. Most initiates to his style might find his paintings to be disturbing. However, after an initial period, viewers of his paintings often find beauty within the figure's expressions. Arana has exhibited his work in Tokyo, Paris, New York, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, and Spain. In 1986, he created the Fundación Francisco Arana, an organization dedicated to foster art in young people. Once a year, the Fundación gives an outstanding art student a scholarship to live and study in Paris. Arana suffered Parkinson's disease for quite a few years and died of associated complications on November 18, 2005 in his house in Paris in the company of his wife Simone Christophe, and daughter Rosa Meléndez Ibarra. Of his art, Arana said: My figures have the elements of life and light. That light that invades the body is the spiritual side of these beings and I like painting in that spiritual space. Each figure transcends life beyond real life and I feel the beings come from within me and then I, myself become part of their world. They are real to me, they are my friends. Arana taught his daughter, Rosa Ibarra, who also went on to study and exhibit art in Paris, France. (en)
- Alfonso Meléndez Arana (Nueva York, 31 de marzo de 1927 - París, 18 de noviembre de 2005) fue un pintor boricua (puertorriqueño). Arana nació en la ciudad de Nueva York, de padre mexicano y madre puertorriqueña.Cuando era joven la familia se mudó a San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, donde el joven pintor pasó su adolescencia. A los seis años Arana hizo su primer retrato y lo presentó a su madre. Su padre, un negociante no quería que su hijo fuera artista. Esto causó grandes desavenencias entre padre e hijo a lo largo de sus vidas. De joven, Arana estudió arte en México en el atelier de José Bardasano. También estudió en el Manhattan School of Arts (Escuela de Artes de Manhattan), en Nueva York. En los años cincuenta se mudó a París, donde estudió en la Academia Julien, y en L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts (El Colegio de Bellas Artes) de París. También hizo trabajos de postgrado en la American University (Universidad Estadounidense), en Washington DC. La Fundación Alfonso Arana ―que funge en San Juan de Puerto Rico― ha concedido varias becas a pintores jóvenes puertorriqueños para estudiar en París. En 2001, el Gobierno francés le otorgó la medalla Caballero de Honor de las Artes y las Ciencias debido a su labor en el acercamiento cultural entre Francia y Puerto Rico. Annie Arana, presidenta de la fundación Alfonso Arana (en San Juan de Puerto Rico), indicó que al momento de su fallecimiento le acompañaban su esposa, Simone Christophe, y su hija Rosa Meléndez Ibarra. Sus cenizas permanecen en París y en una ciudad de Massachusetts donde residen los hijos del pintor: Luis Alfonso, Rosa y Alexandra Isabel. Falleció en la tarde del viernes 18 de noviembre de 2005, a los 78 años, en su hogar en París debido a complicaciones relacionadas con la enfermedad de Parkinson. (es)
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